Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Book Excerpt for the Day


    They came to another fenced area.  Inside was a shack and tied to it was a strange gangbanger mix of Rottweiler, pit bull, and wolf, a brindle-dun carnivore without an ounce of extra fat and with chewed-off ears.

    “Lord have mercy,” Clive said under his breath.

    The dog was 120 pounds of head, jaw muscles, and shoulders.  His eyes scanned the yard and stopped on the men.  Slowly, he walked forward with the off-kilter stare of a Mexican street dog charged up on a jolt of methamphetamine.  He did not look anything like Clive’s golden retriever.  He looked like something that fed on golden retrievers.

    (from Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley)

     7½*/10.  The full review is here.
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