Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places

"Loren Estleman is my hero." --Harlan Coben * For fans of Estleman's long-running Amos Walker series * Eighteen collected short stories from one of the most critically acclaimed authors in crime fiction Desperate Detroit and Stories of Other Dire Places represents forty years of suspense writing in the short form. Previously published in a host of magazines and anthologies, with a new preface and introductions to the stories written especially for this collection, these eighteen tales feature gangsters, private eyes, psychotic killers, hitmen, feuding families, prostitutes, prizefighters, bodyguards, corrupt cops, the walking dead, and ordinary people driven by desperation to commit acts of violence.