Holy Death: A Billy Lafitte novel

Holy Death: A Billy Lafitte novel

<p><b>Billy Lafitte is back...</b></p><p>Back from the brink of death.</p><p>Back on the Gulf Coast, his home stomping grounds, looking to reunite with his beloved one last time.</p><p>Back in the sights of DeVaughn Lagrenade, a former gangbanger whose brother was gunned down by Lafitte and his partner during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.</p><p>Back in the mind of his biggest nemesis, Franklin Rome, who swings into Lafitte's orbit in a most unusual way.</p><p>Throw in a wild-eyed waitress looking for some violent kicks, an ambitious FBI agent slithering up the administrative ladder, a wannabe bad boy on Lafitte's tail with a young psychopath in the passenger seat, and you've got the makings of a rumble that only a prayer to Santa Muerte might help Billy survive.</p><p>Cult crime-novelist Anthony Neil Smith is like a modern-day Charles Willeford. He doesn't just step over "the line," but drag-races past it and keeps on going. With this fourth novel in the Billy Lafitte series, Smith raises the stakes once again for his damaged ex-cop turned stone-cold killer. You'll root for Lafitte all the way, and wish you hadn't, and hope to hell he survives so you can do it all again.</p><br /><p><b>Anthony Neil Smith</b> is the author of <i>Yellow Medicine</i>, <i>Hogdoggin’</i> and <i>The Baddest Ass</i>—the first three Lafitte novels—along with <i>All The Young Warriors</i>, <i>Worm</i> and more. He is the Chair of English at Southwest Minnesota State University.</p>