Purchase
Soho Crime
December 2026
On Sale: December 1, 2026
272 pages
ISBN: 1641298553
EAN: 9781641298551
Kindle: B0GLB6RSJD
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Thriller Crime | LGBTQ | Novella / Short Story
In this brilliant crime debut—a daring heist thriller and homage to ’50s pulp noir—two men fall in love and vow to escape to the Big City together . . . no matter the cost.
Our advantages await! So says the sign in the center of sleepy, provincial Riverton, USA. But to the mild-mannered, terminally bored Richard Cobson, small-town life offers nothing but the desperate desire to escape it. Richard’s humdrum existence is made marginally better when he realizes he can get away with skimming money from the Eddy & Dowd Safe Deposit Company, where he works. Then the handsome, smooth-talking Marlon Montgomery comes to town, and the two fall madly in love. One is a lonely number for a getaway heist; two betters the odds. Together, they concoct a plan to rob Eddy & Dowd’s vault and escape to the Big City
But Richard and Marlon’s foolhardy scheme is complicated threefold: by Gloria, a recent divorcée who wants in on the plan; by Frank Todd, a disgraced cop desperate to restore his reputation; and by Mr. Dowd, the paranoid owner of Eddy & Dowd. As these characters’ lives collide in explosive and ultimately fatal ways, the prospect of freedom for Richard and Marlon becomes a matter of what they’re willing to pay for it.
| 
© 2003-2026