“Yellow Medicine starts with one of the most memorable and engaging anti-heroes in recent memory. Mix in bent cops,  a psychobilly band called Elvis Antichrist,  meth cookers in the Minnesota sticks, and a truly nasty pack of wannabe jihadists. Add a liberal helping of guns, knives and explosives.  Serve it up  at a breakneck pace in Anthony Neil Smith's stripped-down, unflinching prose style. You're gonna love it. ”
—J.D. Rhoades , author of A Good Day in Hell

May | 280 pages | 5.5 x 8.5
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Yellow Medicine summary

Deputy Billy Lafitte is not unfamiliar with the law—he just prefers to enforce it, rather than abide by it. But his rule-bending and bribe-taking have gotten him kicked off the force in Gulfport, Mississippi, and he’s been given a second chance—in the desolate, Siberian wastelands of rural Minnesota. Now Billy’s only got the local girls and local booze to keep him company.

Until one of the local girls—cute little Drew, bassist for a psychobilly band—asks Billy for help with her boyfriend. Something about the drugs Ian’s been selling, some product he may have lost, and the men who are threatening him because of it. Billy agrees to look into it, and before long he’s speeding down a snowy road, tracking a cell of terrorists, with a severed head in his truck’s cab. And that’s only the start.
  
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Praise for Yellow Medicine

"Smith has a powerful voice and delivers quite a romp, offering along the way a sort of Tony Hillerman glimpse into a part of the country that is not often the subject of crime fiction."
—Booklist

"Deputy Billy Lafitte's ethically-flexible approach to law enforcement has led to his dismissal from the force in Gulfport, Miss., and the break-up of his marriage in this well-written if grim contemporary noir from Smith...Smith deserves credit for taking a risk by creating a character like Lafitte, whose private code of honor—if any—is far more obscure than an antihero like Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer."
—Publishers Weekly

It's difficult to create a character who evokes sympathy or some sense of partiality from readers and also commits heinous crimes without any semblance of guilt, but Smith does so with a brooding writing style that is straightforward and unsentimental. For crime-fiction fans who enjoy their literary escapism dark and bloody, "Yellow Medicine" is just what the doctor ordered.
—Chicago Tribune

"Plenty of action and the usual Smith weird take on things make this one something you'll want to grab as soon as it's in print and take your medicine."
—Bill Crider, author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries

"Smith doesn't pull any punches, and Yellow Medicine is worth checking out for those who like their characters bad, their violence unflinching and their endings bleak."
—Independent Crime

A perfect blend of off-beat humor and drama make this book a compelling read (I didn’t want to put it down, I did, but I didn’t want to!).Smith has a real hit here.
—Front Street Reviews
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Born and raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Anthony Neil Smith now lives on the frozen prairies of rural Minnesota, where he teaches at Southwest Minnesota State University.  He's the author of PSYCHOSOMATIC and THE DRUMMER.  He's also the editor of the online noir fiction zine PLOTS WITH GUNS.