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    Coldwater
    Coldwater
    Coldwater
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    Coldwater

    By Tom Pitts

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    After a miscarriage, a young couple move from San Francisco to the Sacramento suburbs to restart their lives. When the vacant house across the street is taken over by who they think are squatters, they’re pulled into a battle neither of them bargained for. The gang of unruly drug addicts who’ve infested their block have a dark and secret history that reaches beyond their neighborhood and all the way to the most powerful and wealthy men in California.

    L.A. fixer Calper Dennings is sent by a private party to quell the trouble before it affects his employer. But before he can finish the job, he too is pulled into the violent dark world of a man with endless resources to destroy anyone around him.

    Praise for COLDWATER:

    “You know those times when your reading slows down and you can’t find the right book to read next? Tom Pitts’s Coldwater was the book I needed to pull me out of those doldrums. I tore through it, gripped by every page. Simply put, Coldwater is a damn good book. A thoughtful and violent tale of bad luck and bad choices. I loved it.” —Johnny Shaw, author of Big Maria and Undocumented

    “A great American writer who knows his way around the gutter. Pitts is bold; his style his own. In Coldwater, he builds characters with heart, through layered storytelling and dialogue as real as a conversation between old friends. Tom Pitts at his very best.” —Matthew McBride, author of Frank Sinatra in a Blender and A Swollen Red Sun

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDown & Out Books
    Release dateMay 18, 2020
    ISBN9780463415542
    Coldwater

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    • 5/5
      Tom Pitts writes about characters who live outside the law and those who are trying to live a normal live. His books are violent, streetwise and with pathos. They expose a side of live many of us do not see. This is the third book of his I have read. They are gritty, filled with characters who are both believable and live in every spectrum of live both good and evil.

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