Crone

Everything here so suffused with his history—as a cop, a wirehead, a killer—that Eli felt like he’d been halved and halved again, his boot heels against the marble floor tattooing the rhythm of all these past lives. One A Body All Ripped Up in Jesus Creek 1 A slate-gray morning and Eli Lamp left his trailer and headed south in his truck to a mean, hard-luck little enclave called Cape’s Head. Eli did his first hank of wire after he shook down a CI in a possession case against the Wheel. Occasionally a distant shot would ring out; the men firing at shadows, or Dave finally gone mad with fury and heartbreak.