After reading and loving THE RAPIST, I was beyond excited to dig into this book. THE BITCH is an uncomfortable read, and I haven’t encountered that in a while. The pacing is excellent and the writing is almost flawless in my opinion. The care that Edgerton has obviously taken with his character development and plotting can’t be described. I highly recommend THE BITCH. The story and its players will stay with you long after you reach THE END.

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If you want a real crime story, this is for you. Like Ed Bunker before him, Les Edgerton knows of what he writes, and he writes it damn well. Jake's story is pure noir: out of prison, he's married, has a business he's starting, and everything looks great until it all turns to shit when his cellie comes asking to have a favor repaid. And as you'd expect, it keeps getting worse. And worse. And always believable, but even worse!
With Jake we're not given a hero who always makes the right decision. Driven by mortal fear of "The Bitch," or life imprisonment as a "Habitual offender," he is forced into more and more horrible dilemmas as his pregnant wife and criminal past collide in a scheme to rob a diamond merchant. Great reading with characters who pop off the page with a realism I can confirm. A dozen years at the port, working with shady jewelers and growing up in a town peppered with loudmouth small-time mobsters, this story is the real deal and a gripping read.
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