Richard Lange

"Set on the dark side of Los Angeles, the masterful new collection from an award-winning and highly praised "natural-born storyteller" (Ron Rash). In these gripping and intense stories, Richard Lange returns to the form that first landed him on the literary map. These are edge-of-your-seat tales: A prison guard must protect an inmate being tried for heinous crimes. A father and son set out to rescue a young couple trapped during a wildfire. An ex-con...

Two immortal brothers crisscross the American Southwest to elude a murderous biker gang and protect a young woman. Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, are on the road in search of victims. They are rovers, nearly indestructible nocturnal beings who must consume human blood in order to survive. For seventy years they have lurked on the fringes of society, roaming from town to town, stalking the transients, addicts, and prostitutes they feed...

Forming a partnership with a prostitute, a down-on-his-luck con man recklessly agrees to a friend's request to orchestrate a theft in a Los Angeles apartment, where a crew of soldiers is reputed to have stashed millions in cash smuggled out of Afghanistan. Rumor has it that two million dollars in army money was smuggled out of Afghanistan and is stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles. Rowan Petty, a conman down on his luck, heads south with his sweet-talking...