Ed Earl Burch

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Created by Jim Nesbitt

For those of you not getting enough shitkicking in your literary diet…

Dallas private eye ED EARL BURCH has a bad disposition, a string of bad marriages, a pair of bad knees and a liver that just ain’t worth shit, but he’s also one tough, smart SOB. He doesn’t take any crap from anybody but boy, can he dish it out.

A former vice and homicide dick, he’s been battered and burned–a former hotshot content now to take life as it comes, one day at a time, even if it isn’t going anywhere. Long as there’s a bourbon at the end of the day.

Definitely recommended for fans of Joe Lansdale and James Crumley, Nesbitt presents a hard world of hurt and regret, full of spit and shit, sweat and blood and jizz, and he’s a private eye trying to live in it–one who knows he’s already doomed.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The author spent over thirty years as a journalist, chasing down neo-Nazis, rodeo cowboys, presidential candidates and other scoundrels, and lived to tell the tale. It shows. “I’ve always thought of hard-boiled crime fiction as a distinctly American art form,” he says. “Rooted in realism, cynicism, violence, corruption and a dark view of the American dream, it’s also a tremendously flexible genre. It’s best practitioners — from the founding fathers, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, through Ross Macdonald, James Ellroy and the late and vastly underappreciated James Crumley — use it as a vehicle to comment on contemporary American life and politics, music, culture, the warped psychology of the hardened criminal and the suburban housewife, the tortured dance between men and women and anything else that strikes their fancy.”
“When I decided to try my hand at fiction,” he continues, “I knew it would be hard-boiled crime fiction because it matches my outlook on life and my experience as a journalist as well as the freedom I saw in the books of the very best writers, not that I’m close to being in their class.”

UNDER OATH

  • “Nesbitt is a natural storyteller with a taste for hard-bitten noir, which he serves up with chicken-fried flair in his debut noir, The Last Second Chance. I’m always on the scout for new writers with a distinctive voice, especially if they can handle a noir tale with a different flair. The Last Second Chance fits my requirements perfectly with a distinctive drawl that elevates it above the pack of wannabes with a noir flavor as tangy as smoky Tex-Mex barbecue. This one has settled high on my list of best newcomers for 2016.”
    — Paul Bishop
  • “Nesbitt channel the lyricism of James Crumley, the twisted kick of Jim Thompson, and the cold, dark heart of Mickey Spillane.”
    — Jayne Loadeer
  • “Texas tough and rattlesnake mean, Jim Nesbitt’s The Best Lousy Choice pits fallen lawman Ed Earl Burch against a veritable gauntlet of outlaws. A fast-paced romp though terrain as untamed and lethal as its inhabitants.”
    — Bruce Robert Coffin

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Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.

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