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| | Amazon.com: Cripple Creek: A Novel: Books: James Sallis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Through flashbacks and flashforwards, most of these episodes unconnected to the rest of the narrative, he shows Turner in action--a genuinely kind and empathetic person, at the same time that he is violent and filled with bloodlust. |
 | | One of the most unusual and intelligent mysteries I've read in years, Cripple Creek is unique, a novel in which every word counts, even when those words are not adding to the plot. |
 | | Turner, ex-cop, ex-con, ex-therapist, is serving as deputy sheriff in backwoods Cripple Creek, Tennessee. |
| www.amazon.com /Cripple-Creek-Novel-James-Sallis/dp/0802733824 (2580 words) |
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