T S O'Rourke

Sharp Shots: Modern Noir T S O'Rourke

Sharp Shots bring three of T. S. O'Rourke's hardboiled noir novelettes together in one ebook: The ClubAn elderly rich couple employ the services of P. I. Jimmy O'Hanlon in a desperate search for their daughter who went missing after a high society sex party held by an exclusive private club. But is everything what it seems to be?Sunset StripA travelling businessman meets a beautiful young Latina from the wrong side of the tracks. But everything starts to go wrong. On waking he finds his life turned upside down and all reason gone from his world. Caught in an impossible situation and running out of time he searches frantically for a way out. Candy Says KillA stranger pulls into a roadside bar and motel and gets an offer he can't refuse from a wily femme fatale intent on murder. Can she be trusted to keep her side of the bargain? Is anything ever what it seems?Candy Says Kill takes the reader on a whirlwind ride into deepest Alabama, where a gun for hire stops at a remote Motel and Bar on his way back to New York. A classic pulp fiction case of mistaken identity and opportunism leads him into the arms of fate in the form of a beautiful young woman intent on escaping her dreary life as a bar owner's wife. A double-cross, confusion and murder ensue. But who will survive?T. S. O'Rourke's writing has been declared powerful, beautiful and hard-boiled by both readers and critics alike.