The Ballad of the Cop's Gun

By C. C. Blake

The ugly city is home to hundreds of stories. This is one of them.

This afternoon in San Antonio, a dead body will bring together a handful of strangers. Greed, lust and fear will drive them to further desperate acts. A vagrant vet, a stripper, and a slum lord are all players in this dance, key components in the ballad of the cop's gun.

C. C. Blake's approach to crime fiction adds a modern spin to the stylings of James M. Cain, John D. MacDonald and Mickey Spillane to create suspense thrillers that have surprised and engaged his readers. "The Ballad of the Cop's Gun" is his take on the inner city drama, echoing works like MacDonald's The Neon Jungle and Spillane's Dead Street.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Twice Told Tales II
• Release date: Mar 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301783144

C. C. Blake

C.C. Blake has lived across the United States, starting in the suburbs of Detroit, to Massachusetts’ second largest city (Worcester) to the country’s seventh largest city (San Antonio, Texas, that is). He’s has a variety of jobs, working as a substitute teacher, the graveyard shift dishwasher at a haunted Denny’s, lab research monkey and teaching assistant at a second tier college. Currently, he works as an automation consultant for a chemical company on the Northeast side of SAtown (which isn’t as Hellish as it sounds). Blake’s most popular character, irrepressible adventurer Chuck Cave, has appeared in over two dozen stories, including the 2005 Man’s Story 2 Story of the Year Award winner “Chuck Cave and the Vanishing Vixen.” The character’s supernatural thriller stories (which began with the seminal “Cave and the Vamp”) are all being released as a part of Vampires2.com’s initial foray into e-books. These new versions are presented in expanded and revised versions, all are the author’s preferred texts. Be sure to collect them all! In addition to his pulp stories for the 2-Empire (Man’s Story 2, Vampires 2, Androids 2 and Paranormal Romance 2), Blake’s fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including Unparalleled Journeys II (from Journey Books Publishing) and Fearology: Terrifying Tales of Phobias (from Library of Horror Press).

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