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Crazy Heat
Crazy Heat
Crazy Heat
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Crazy Heat

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Out of ideas for a new career, retired Air Force Special Ops vet Bobby Egan has spent the last two years working at the 24 Hour MiniMart in Tucson, but all that’s about to change thanks to Zoe Marchand, a smoldering damsel in distress and Albert Bennett, former drug runner turned ‘legit’ property developer. Both are offering him some work—Zoe needs a mediator to get her out of a sticky legal situation and Albert is looking for a half a million cash infusion for his latest development venture. But before Bobby can do anything, he’s got to do an odd job for his friend Dotty Shannon, retired porn star—a woman with a tawdry past that just won’t fade away.
Maybe it was the monsoon, or Lynette Stenton recently released from a California State prison, a woman attempting to quiet the voices in her head that set off a domino of events, escalating into desperate choices and unpredictable behavior in multiple games of cat and mouse.
Everybody’s got an agenda they aren’t sharing with Bobby—a Jewish-Mexican loan shark itching to restore his reputation and his perpetually stoned, sociopath cousin—a scorned writer with dire flashes of unpredictable rage—a gardener turning her backyard into a fortress against the past—and a mother-son relationship that puts a terrifying twist in family dysfunction.
With a keen, observant style, sharp provocative dialogue and dark, wry wit that does not shy from the disturbing underbelly of human desire and need, CRAZY HEAT will engage the reader with complex characters and intertwining storylines converging in a fast-paced novel that absorbs, shocks and entertains.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 10, 2010
ISBN9781452373386
Crazy Heat
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Francene LaDue

Francene LaDue is the author of Crazy Heat, the brutal and very real, crime novel praised as “a gripping tale of killing and revenge.”A communications professional with twenty years of Hollywood and Studio experience, Francene has helped to promote more than 100 films including High Fidelity, Sixth Sense, Ransom, Phenomenon, Armageddon, Enemy of The State, Gone In 60 Seconds, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and The Ladykillers, as well as movies featuring celebrities such as George Clooney, John Travolta, Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington, Johnny Deep, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck, Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, Reese Witherspoon, and Josh Lucas.Born and raised in California, she grew up the youngest of five sisters in a USMC Master Sergeant’s household. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, her short fiction has appeared in Clique Magazine and Apocalypse, and her one-act play Exclusively Human was employed in the Masters Program at the Sorbonne.Swapping a film-focused career for a more literary focus, Francene took up residence in the old Pulitzer family mansion in the historic Old North End of Colorado Springs where she completed her first novel, Crazy Heat and has now begun the second book in the Bobby Egan series, Cactus Flower.

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