Road of No Return - Reed, Annie

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Résumé :
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, NICK JAMES DID THE RIGHT THING. HE reported a crime. But doing the right thing came at a terrible cost: the loss of everything and everyone he held dear. Nick James used to be a cop with a promising career. Now he works as a bartender at a sleezy Las Vegas strip club. Friendless and alone, he lives as far under the radar as he can get. Until one night when a simple act of kindness blows his anonymous life to bits, sending him on a collision course with the one person he's been hiding from all these years: his former partner, a violent, crooked ex-cop with mob connections who blames Nick for sending him to prison. In order to survive, Nick must do something he never thought he'd do. Turn the tables on his pursuer. Come out of the shadows to become the hunter instead of the hunted. All he needs is a little luck on his side. But luck can be a fickle lady, especially in a town like Las Vegas.

Biographie:
Annie Reed has been called one of the best writers of her generation and for good reason. She writes in multiple genres, including urban and contemporary fantasy, mystery, suspense, science fiction, romance, and thrillers, along with the occasional story that doesn't fall into any one specific category. She's a founding member and frequent contributor to the innovative UNCOLLECTED ANTHOLOGY, now starting its eleventh year of publishing themed urban and contemporary anthologies. Her short fiction appears regularly in PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE, THRILL RIDE MAGAZINE, and MYSTERY, CRIME & MAYHEM. She's even written official Star Trek fiction and admits that she's an unabashed MCU fangirl.Annie has won awards in categories as diverse as her writing. She's been honored with appearances in five year's best mystery and crime volumes, including an amazing three years in a row in the BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR (2022, 2023, and 2024) edited by Otto Penzler. She received a Silver Honorable Mention from Writers of the Future and won a Literary Fellowship from the Nevada Arts Council. She's a multiple Derringer finalist, and one of her holiday romance stories (featuring cats, of course) was chosen to appear in study materials in Japan for students preparing for college entrance exams.This prolific, versatile writer's longer works include the mystery novels Pretty Little Horses, Paper Bullets, and A Death in Cumberland, the crime novel Road of No Return (which also features a cat), the suspense novel Shadow Life written under the name Kris Sparks, and the Gray Lady space opera novels co-written with bestselling author Robert Jeschonek. Annie also writes the sweet romance Liberty Springs novels under the name Liz McKnight.Annie currently writes and edits full time, when she's not otherwise cuddling cats. She can be found on the web at anniereed.wordpress.com....