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Prince of Christler-Coke
Published 2004
“Asel, you simply must come along. Robbie’s bought Spayne, and he wants us all to go and see...”
It’s a truly splendid day. With Asel’s marriage to the lovely Loreli, the two great Houses of Christler-Coke and Pepsicoma-Dodge will swallow all of America East...
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Piggs
Published 2002
SORRY-SOLD OUT!
If the "Sopranos" wore overalls, and didn't like shoes, they'd live in Mexican Wells...
If Jack hadn't screwed up a no-brainer holdup in Amarillo, if he hadn't gotten high with a long-legged Oklahoma girl--hey, if he'd ever done anything right, he wouldn't have ended up in Huntsville pen. He sure as hell wouldn't be washing dishes in a dump like Wan's.
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The Hereafter Gang
Published 1991
On a hot summer Texas afternoon, Cindy Nance introduces young Doug Hoover to the two great secrets of life. Doug likes the first secret a lot. The second, that guys grow up and go to work, doesn't appeal to him at all.
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Interstate Dreams
Published 1999
Dreamer came back to Austin, Texas, from a bad banana war with a souvenir slug in his head. No big deal, just a minor side effect: Now, every safe, every lock, every fancy alarm, takes a nap when he's around.
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Perpetuity Blues: And Other Stories
Published 2000
In this outstanding collection are twelve delightfully strange and wonderful stories.
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Slighty Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales
Published 1991
This is Barrett's first collection---"Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales"--that's what the author himself says, but don't listen to him:
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Pink Vodka Blues
Published 1992
"This girl was Hefner clean, a very small and fine-boned girl with a tan that didn't come from September in Chicago afternoons. That's when the guys with piggy eyes and linebacker necks exploded into the room. The girl screamed and wouldn't stop. The first guy paused at the foot of the bed and shot the girl twice. The gun made tiny little sounds, like someone opening up a pair of 7-Ups..."
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Dead Dog Blues
Published 1994
Nothing ever happens in Pharaoh, Texas...
Drunks and missing auto parts headline the local crime wave until a barking dead dog shows up in millionaire Max Coomer's backyard. Then Coomer himself is discovered cold and very dead, running for fame and glory forever down the gridiron at Pharaoh High.
That's just the start of mayhem in a sleepy Texas town, and the beginning of Jack Track's nightmare pursuit of a maniac who doesn't like anyone in Pharaoh, Texas.
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Skinny Annie Blues
Published 1996
All Wiley has to do is stay out of jail and the local cemetery, and get out of Texas any way he can...
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Bad Eye Blues
Published 1997
"That's all you do, you draw bugs, you draw a buncha bugs? So what kinda job is that?"
Dinner with gorgeous aeronautical engineer Claire de Mer holds the promise of bliss for Wiley Moss-—until two maniac mobsters toss him on a cross-country bus and shuffle him off to Idaho. Hey, no big deal.
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A Different Vintage
Published 2001
Look up "vintage" and the dictionary will tell you "the crop of a single season," or an alternate definition: "choice."
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The Prophecy Machine
Published 2000
WARNING: Mixing machines and magic is definitely not recommended...
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The Treachery of Kings
Published 2001
Obeying a royal command can be hazardous to your health...
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