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Thomas & Mercer
October 2012
On Sale: September 25, 2012
317 pages
ISBN: 1612184391
EAN: 9781612184395
Kindle: B007KO2MLO
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Fiction
There’s gold in them thar hills—or more precisely, in
Arizona’s Chocolate Mountains, where one hundred years ago a
miner stashed a king’s ransom of the stuff. But times have
changed. The world has changed. And now the Chocolate
Mountains are the home of the largest military artillery
range in the world. Harry’s living on disability and getting liquored up and
beaten down. Frank’s a feisty old-timer battling cancer and
a domineering daughter. And Ricky’s a good kid in a bad
spot, doing everything for family. Together they’re staking
what little they have left on a dangerous quest to the Big
Maria Mine—and the gold that can offer them a new beginning. Unfortunately a meth-dealing biker wants a piece, a
trigger-happy AWOL soldier wants to play chicken in a live
minefield, two stubborn burros want to go home, a starving
mountain lion wants his dinner, and the US Army wants to
rain on our heroes’ parade with real bombs. When you’re all out of crazy ideas, you’ve got to try the
stupid ones. Imagine Chuck Palahniuk and Don Winslow’s love child – and
that would be ribald author Johnny Shaw. His novel Big Maria
is a unfiltered, wild romp in which three men get one chance
to find a lost gold mine; the only problem is the Big Maria
Mine is right in the middle of a US Army artillery range.
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