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The Last Professional
by Ed Davis
GENRE: Historical Thriller - Fiction
PUBLICATION DATE: 01/25/2022
DESCRIPTION:
A hobo, a wanderer, a madman; three characters hurtling toward a heart-wrenching climax where their way of life, and their lives, hang in the balance.
Lynden Hoover, a young man on the brink of a new beginning, cannot embrace it without confronting the traumas of his past. Help comes from The Duke, an old loner who calls America' s landscape his home. He clings to an honor code, but in fleeing from Short Arm, his merciless enemy, his code is being tested. The Duke mentors Lynden, enlisting old traveling friends to keep himself and his apprentice just ahead of Short Arm' s relentless pursuit. When two of those friends are murdered, the stakes become life or death.
Bonds are formed, secrets exposed, sacrifices made, trusts betrayed; all against a breathtaking American landscape of promise and peril. Three unforgettable characters, hurtling toward a spellbinding climax where pasts and futures collide, and lives hang in the balan
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ed Davis began his writing career over forty years ago, pausing in boxcars, under street lamps, and in hobo jungles to capture the beats and rhythms of the road as he caught freight trains and vagabonded around the Pacific Northwest and Canada. The Last Professional began in a boxcar. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals. His novella, In All Things, and his collection of travel pieces, Road Stories, have both been Amazon Top Ten bestsellers. Ed’s death row thriller, A Matter of Time, was written in real time, twenty-four hours, as the last day of the hero’s life unfolds.
REVIEWS:
“With The Last Professional, Davis has done for American railroads what Kerouac did for American highways, and Steinbeck did for American nomads.”
—Jerry Cimino, The Beat Museum,
San Francisco
Wow, what an ending!”
—Don Bartletti, Pulitzer Prize Winner
“It’s the antithesis of cliché, the kind of story that feels like its inspirational roots are as much grounded in a storyteller’s unique imaginative qualities, as it is in someone’s lived experience.”
—Colin Jordan, Medium
“Part Peckinpah, part Stephen King’s Stand By Me, and part something else entirely – The Last Professional feels honestly like escapism done right. The kind that completely envelopes you, with dream-like seduction, in a fully realized and fleshed out environment.”
—Jodi Marxbury, Daily Pop News
“The Last Professional is the classic kind of reading experience that conjures up a different time . . . and a sense of innocent modern day swashbuckling that introduced to us authors like Hunter S. Thomps
COMPARATIVE FILM/BOOK:
Of Mice and Men, News of the World, The Emperor of the North
CASTING:
Lynden: Ansel Elgort, Tye Sheridan, Lucas Hedges, Nick Robinson, Nat Zang, Booboo Stewart - The Duke: Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Tommy Lee Jones, Sam Elliott, David Jensen, David Patrick Kelly - Short Arm: Michael Shannon, Michael Madsen,Benicio Del Toro, Mickey Rourke
PRIMARY VENUES/LOCATIONS WITHIN THE BOOK:
The American West, late in the last century --- Freight trains, hobo jungles, skid rows, carnivals
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