"In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery, while one inexplicably survived. Then, a teenage girl vanished from the annual State Fair. Neither crime was ever solved. Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved cases quietly echo through survivors' lives. A private investigator in Vegas, Wyatt's latest inquiry takes him back to a past he's tried to escape--...

"Lou Berney's novel is so energetic, so droll, and so wheezingly funny that it accomplished what no book ever has before: it made me forget to eat lunch."
—Stephen Harrigan, New York Times bestselling author of Challenger Park
A fast and funny caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and the Coen Brothers, Gutshot Straight brings a fresh new talent into the crime fiction fold: Louis Berney. He's already won raves

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Parfois le héros dont on a besoin est celui auquel on s'attend le moins.
Une petite ville américaine, au milieu de nulle part. Hardly, la petite vingtaine, végète : acteur de seconde zone dans un parc d'attractions décrépit, il vit de fumette et de factures non payées, et se garde bien d'entretenir toute ambition qui risquerait de le faire sortir de sa zone de confort.
Jusqu'au jour où il croise le regard de Pearl...