From the inside flap
“Roy Nichols needs to find some quick cash to keep
from losing his motel. The new highway was supposed to go through, providing
plenty of business, but now it’s been delayed. The bank refuses to help, and
his brother turns him down. Desperate and on the way back home, he catches a
ride with a bickering couple named Vivian and Teece. They start drinking, and
he gets spooked, and crashes the car. That’s when Nichols discovers that his
travelling companions have been carrying a briefcase full of cash. Teece appears
to be dead, and Vivian confesses that they have robbed the mob, and begs him to
help her escape. But to do that, Nichols will have to lie to his wife Bess. .
.to the cops. . .and ultimately, to a dangerous man named Radan.”
Review
Scarf is
an excellent, intense-from-the-first-word pulp novel, whose protagonist─a
good-hearted but desperate man─finds himself to questionable things, even as he
sweats it out the entire time. Those around him know he’s hiding something (he is
a terrible liar), but he feels he has no other choice to come clean. This is a
fast-burn read─I finished reading it within two hours─and one worth seeking out
and owning, if quick, pulpy thrills are your bent.
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