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Head Games

By: Craig McDonald
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
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When Senator Prescott Bush demands the mummified head of Pancho Villa for Yale's Skull & Bones Society's trophy case, a pulp writer named Lassiter winds up holding the bag.

Craig McDonald is an award-winning journalist whose fiction has graced numerous anthologies of crime noir. Set in 1957, Head Games is a quirky, action-packed caper hailed as a "fun, deft debut" (Publishers Weekly).

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"This slick caper novel touches chords of myth, history, loss and redemption just enough so you can hear echoes faintly under the gunfire." (Publishers Weekly)
"There's even a cameo from a callow, foul-mouthed Skull and Bones initiate named "George W." Much of Head Games reads like a picaresque adventure, but McDonald's portraits of Welles, Dietrich, and Pancho Villa are beguiling and seem knowing. This one is simply great fun!" (Booklist)
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This book took me back in time, sitting in the dark watching an old crime noir, the only light coming from the B&W movie on the TV screen. You can feel the humidity. The smoke hanging in the air is cloying.

Craig McDonald’s prose is biting, quick and hardboiled. It ranks high with the best of the old pulp mavens. His story kept me coming back for more; it and his characters are tragic and believable.

His ability to weave historical personages into his story believably also ranks high with authors like Max Allan Collins, Stuart Kaminsky and Robert Randisi. I won’t spoil the fun by deep-diving into the story itself; suffice to say, it’s a duesy. I can’t wait to get into the rest of Hector’s misadventures.

Read Craig McDonald! Read Hector Lassiter, before it’s too late!

There’s Always Time… Until There Isn’t.

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