Yellow Medicine Billy Lafitte Book 1 edition by Anthony Neil Smith Craig Johnson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Deputy Billy Lafitte is not unfamiliar with the law—he just prefers to enforce it, rather than abide by it. But his rule-bending and bribe-taking have gotten him kicked off the force in Gulfport, Mississippi, and he’s been given a second chance—in the desolate, Siberian wastelands of rural Minnesota. Now Billy’s only got the local girls and local booze to keep him company.
Until one of the local girls—cute little Drew, bassist for a psychobilly band—asks Billy for help with her boyfriend. Something about the drugs Ian’s been selling, some product he may have lost, and the men who are threatening him because of it. Billy agrees to look into it, and before long he’s speeding down a snowy road, tracking a cell of terrorists, with a severed head in his truck’s cab. And that’s only the start.
Yellow Medicine Billy Lafitte Book 1 edition by Anthony Neil Smith Craig Johnson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
It makes a cool change to follow a protagonist who is an absolute arse, with hardly a redeeming feature to latch to. At least in the early stages of this Anthony Neil Smith novel set in the American Midwest.We meet Billy Lafitte, a Yellow Medicine copper, fancying the knickers off another man’s girlfriend, Drew, promising to help her boyfriend, Ian, with some drug trouble he’s got himself into, only so he can get in her good books so he can have her to himself. To be fair, he wants her on her terms, rather than just wanting an easy lay, which is what he’s after with just about every other attractive woman in the area.
And so starts Lafitte’s second nightmare. We learn he took backhanders during his previous incarnation as a Mississippi cop during Hurricane Katrina, taking all the advantages he could from that catastrophe. Found out and disgraced he is now in frozen Minnesota, exiled from his wife, kids, and Mississippi warmth, and taking backhanders from meth cooks and dealers. All this while his brother-in-law gives his career a second chance. Only it turns out that Ian is in serious debt to a bunch of Islamist terrorists who use beheadings to get their way. And now they’re furious because Lafitte won’t play ball.
Yellow Medicine is a mad, lurching, somersaulting ride into a dark zone enough to freak you out. The bad guys are so hell-bent on using Lafitte to ease their money-raising activities that they make the protagonist’s actions and personality completely sane in comparison. But Liafitte’s past is so degraded that he worries how everything might look, so hides or doctors the plants (a knife and photographs) they intend to incriminate him with, instead of turning them over to his colleagues. And what he has to hide is a head. It leads to more headless bodies, and a hunt for the bastards who did it all.
The novel is about corruption erupting after national disasters, with Lafitte and his ex-partner falling off the rails after Katrina, and government agents going rogue after 9/11, bending the law and doing whatever they feel is right to either keep the country safe, or to push their own promotion.
Fast-paced and hardly stopping to allow the reader to put the kettle on for a brew, ANS piles on the stakes until you root for bad bastard Lafitte. You can roll your eyes all you want at his space shuttle-sized cock ups, but when he’s up against head-choppers, you want him to win.
For all its entertainment, it’s not flawless. Drew seems insufficiently affected by the deaths around her, and the interactions between her and Lafitte are a little stiff. Lafitte also seems a little unworldly. He whines about why terrorists hate America, and leaves it at that. His brother-in-law says at one point that it is because of people like him. It’s not explored enough, and it would have benefited from it, considering the antagonists would love to blow the US to a pulp.
Still, it doesn’t overly affect what is a cracking piece of entertainment, with a main character you can love to hate.
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Yellow Medicine Billy Lafitte Book 1 edition by Anthony Neil Smith Craig Johnson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Bad cop Billy Lafitte after Hurricane Katrina was fired, but the brother of Billy's ex-wife, the sheriff of Yellow Medicine County, arranges to hire Billy as his Deputy. At the new place Lafitte keeps doing bad things solving problems by force, taking cuts from the drug operations and generally enforcing the law with unlawful methods. But Billy's got a good heart. When a bassist of a psychobilly band Drew, which Lafitte is fond of, asks Billy to help her boyfriend to solve the problems with the two meth dealers, Lafitte happily agrees, suggesting that the problem will be a breeze.
Lafitte could not guess that a breeze will turn out two corpses with their heads cut off and all the members of psychobilly band killed.
Anthony Neil Smith, whose imagination never failed him, would not be himself if he didn't added into the plot lots of madness in Minnesota, a terrorist group of Malaysians operates who are disguised as drug traffickers. First reaction What the hell? But such was the reaction of Lafitte, when he found out about the terrorists from the FBI agent Rome. Next, the situation for Billy is getting worse and worse, given the fact that he is being chased by not only Islamists, but federal agents, suspecting that Lafitte helps this terrorist cell.
Bad-ass Billy Lafitte is truly a unique creation. More unique is that Smith manages to build a novel around the obvious anti-hero, but with brains and a heart. Billy arranges crusade against terrorists, but he does it not save the country, but to save his own sking and skins of his loved ones.
More tragic is that in Yellow Medicine we see a man who is stumbling once (more so if twice), and no one else will give you a hand and will not believe him.
In the novel, there is a second anti-hero, an FBI agent Rome. He incarnates here a soulless government machine that does not care about a single individual, but only about the entire nation. It is not clear which is worse, the terrorists who want to destroy your country, or your very own state.
Yellow Medicine is strikingly similar to Faculty of unnecessary things by Soviet writer Yuri Dombrowski, though they are made of different dough, and Dombrowski and Smith could not read each other. But both of them tell a story about a man who is in such trouble, of which seems to be no way out, and the only thing left is to be honest with himself and to act according to your conscience.
This is Smith's third novel, and it is bigger than the two previous ones, although the book doesn't turn into a thriller (for the better). And yes, Smith is a master how to begin books (and and end them too).
It makes a cool change to follow a protagonist who is an absolute arse, with hardly a redeeming feature to latch to. At least in the early stages of this Anthony Neil Smith novel set in the American Midwest.
We meet Billy Lafitte, a Yellow Medicine copper, fancying the knickers off another man’s girlfriend, Drew, promising to help her boyfriend, Ian, with some drug trouble he’s got himself into, only so he can get in her good books so he can have her to himself. To be fair, he wants her on her terms, rather than just wanting an easy lay, which is what he’s after with just about every other attractive woman in the area.
And so starts Lafitte’s second nightmare. We learn he took backhanders during his previous incarnation as a Mississippi cop during Hurricane Katrina, taking all the advantages he could from that catastrophe. Found out and disgraced he is now in frozen Minnesota, exiled from his wife, kids, and Mississippi warmth, and taking backhanders from meth cooks and dealers. All this while his brother-in-law gives his career a second chance. Only it turns out that Ian is in serious debt to a bunch of Islamist terrorists who use beheadings to get their way. And now they’re furious because Lafitte won’t play ball.
Yellow Medicine is a mad, lurching, somersaulting ride into a dark zone enough to freak you out. The bad guys are so hell-bent on using Lafitte to ease their money-raising activities that they make the protagonist’s actions and personality completely sane in comparison. But Liafitte’s past is so degraded that he worries how everything might look, so hides or doctors the plants (a knife and photographs) they intend to incriminate him with, instead of turning them over to his colleagues. And what he has to hide is a head. It leads to more headless bodies, and a hunt for the bastards who did it all.
The novel is about corruption erupting after national disasters, with Lafitte and his ex-partner falling off the rails after Katrina, and government agents going rogue after 9/11, bending the law and doing whatever they feel is right to either keep the country safe, or to push their own promotion.
Fast-paced and hardly stopping to allow the reader to put the kettle on for a brew, ANS piles on the stakes until you root for bad bastard Lafitte. You can roll your eyes all you want at his space shuttle-sized cock ups, but when he’s up against head-choppers, you want him to win.
For all its entertainment, it’s not flawless. Drew seems insufficiently affected by the deaths around her, and the interactions between her and Lafitte are a little stiff. Lafitte also seems a little unworldly. He whines about why terrorists hate America, and leaves it at that. His brother-in-law says at one point that it is because of people like him. It’s not explored enough, and it would have benefited from it, considering the antagonists would love to blow the US to a pulp.
Still, it doesn’t overly affect what is a cracking piece of entertainment, with a main character you can love to hate.
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