The McGraws are back for more madness and mayhem in this prequel to Rumrunners.
It’s 1971, and outlaw driver Calvin McGraw is grooming his 19-year-old son Webb to uphold the family name. Drugs, money, people—the McGraws drive anything and everything.
When a delivery goes wrong, Calvin steps knee-deep in a turf war between his employer, the Stanleys, and a rival Midwestern crime syndicate, but his week gets a whole lot worse when Webb—on his first solo job—loses the cargo.
Praise for Leadfoot:
“Characters display unexpected but plausible depths, and Beetner effectively balances action scenes with quieter moments. Readers, especially fans of the TV series Fargo, will want to seek out his other work.”
Publishers Weekly
“No padding here, no bouts of introspection. Just good writing and straight ahead storytelling at a relentless pace.”
Booklist
“Beetner has taken the bootlegger genre and distilled it down past the landscapes, and idiom, into the pure white lightning that stories about guns and booze deserve. He made it fun as hell. He populates Leadfoot with characters as rich and lively as any Elmore Leonard novel, and when Beetner punches the gas, you can almost see the McGraw’s middle fingers flying as they invite us all along for the ride.”
Brian Panowich, author of Like Lions and Bull Mountain
“Eric Beetner is already miles ahead of the competition, but in Leadfoot he's found yet another gear.”
Allan Guthrie, author of Slammer
It’s 1971, and outlaw driver Calvin McGraw is grooming his 19-year-old son Webb to uphold the family name. Drugs, money, people—the McGraws drive anything and everything.
When a delivery goes wrong, Calvin steps knee-deep in a turf war between his employer, the Stanleys, and a rival Midwestern crime syndicate, but his week gets a whole lot worse when Webb—on his first solo job—loses the cargo.
Praise for Leadfoot:
“Characters display unexpected but plausible depths, and Beetner effectively balances action scenes with quieter moments. Readers, especially fans of the TV series Fargo, will want to seek out his other work.”
Publishers Weekly
“No padding here, no bouts of introspection. Just good writing and straight ahead storytelling at a relentless pace.”
Booklist
“Beetner has taken the bootlegger genre and distilled it down past the landscapes, and idiom, into the pure white lightning that stories about guns and booze deserve. He made it fun as hell. He populates Leadfoot with characters as rich and lively as any Elmore Leonard novel, and when Beetner punches the gas, you can almost see the McGraw’s middle fingers flying as they invite us all along for the ride.”
Brian Panowich, author of Like Lions and Bull Mountain
“Eric Beetner is already miles ahead of the competition, but in Leadfoot he's found yet another gear.”
Allan Guthrie, author of Slammer
