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Wishing Ed Earl Burch Could Interrogate Elon Musk
If you’re feeling helpless and hopeless in the face of the current Presidential crime wave, a few hours with Jim Nesbitt’s Dallas private eye might be just the catharsis you need.
My old friend and newspaper colleague Jim Nesbitt writes hard-boiled crime fiction these days. And I do mean hard.
Jim’s banged-up, badass Dallas PI, Ed Earl Burch, an ex-cop who’s partial to Duke Wayne and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Lucky Strikes and Maker’s Mark, makes Mike Hammer look like Miss Marple.
Definitely not for the faint of heart, Jim’s novels, among them The Best Lousy Choice, nonetheless offer wicked humor and a keen eye for the details of Texas terrain as well as brass-knuck action and profanity that would strip the paint off a firetruck
Lousy Choice isn’t hot off the presses, but the timing is right. Or should I say the times?
The crime wave underway in our nation’s capitol has me feeling powerless and in need of a champion.
Reading Ed Earl’s exploits is cathartic.
I’d like to buy him a ticket to Washington, absolutely confident he would know which butts to kick and which heads to crack.
You can find Jim and his stand-in at https://jimnesbittbooks.com/ and on Amazon.com.
