Double Wide

Name: Double Wide
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Leo W. Banks
ISBN: 9781541445659

Author: Leo W. Banks

Narrator: Shawn Compton

Unabridged: 8 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/09/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

After fastball phenom Prospero Stark's baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend's fate, a dangerous pursuit that pits them against a ruthless gang of drug-dealing killers.

About Leo W. Banks

Leo W. Banks graduated from Boston College and earned a master's degree from the University of Arizona, where he later taught writing. He has written four books of Old West history for Arizona Highways publishing and cowrote a book about the Grand Canyon. Today, Banks writes a column for True West magazine. Double Wide is his first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

Prospero "Whip" Stark was once an up-and-coming phenom, pitching in the major leagues. But then he blew out his shoulder and, following surgery, his career never recovered. From there it was all downhill until he found himself in a Mexican jail doing time on drug charges. Now free and back home in t......more

Goodreads review by Glen

When a former pitcher, now the owner of a trailer park, finds the hand of his former catcher at his front door, bad things start to happen. He finds himself embroiled in drug smuggling, and back alley corruption.......more