Wealthy Memphis Underworld FigureHires Sniper To Kill Mississippi
Labor Organizer.Written by University of Mississippi journalism
professor Joseph B. Atkins, Casey's Last Chance has garnered high
praise, including: "Move over Greg Iles and make room for another
novelist who traffics in treachery, wild rides, unreconstructed
Nazis and rogue agents. In Casey's Last Chance, Joseph B. Atkins
establishes for himself a place in the top ranks of Southern gothic
storytellers, with a cast of evil characters and a few good men and
women to fight them."-Curtis Wilkie, author of The Fall of the
House of Zeus "Joe Atkins's Casey's Last Chance is such
pitch-perfect vintage noir, you can almost smell the cigarette
burning in the ashtray, a woman's perfume drifting past. With a
twisty plot, vibrant characters, and hardboiled grit to burn, it's
everything you want in a crime novel."-Megan Abbott,
Edgar-award-winning author of Dare Me and The Fever "Joe Atkins has
crafted an original, provocative take on the 1960s South. This
story has it all - mobsters, assassinations, romance, gothic
landscapes, and a cast of characters you'll remember long after
you've read the final sentence."-Neil White, author of In the
Sanctuary of Outcasts "The sense of place in Casey's Last Chance is
palpable. The author knows the long dark stretches of blacktop
between dim lights on Mississippi secondary roads, the dangerous
sections abruptly encountered in our few cities, the little towns
with photographs in filling station windows of mere boys and
handwritten signs that say STOP THE KILLING. You can follow Casey's
route with this novel as a richly annotated road map. But take my
advice. Drive a clean reliable car in daylight under the speed
limit, but not too much. Speak politely if stopped. At night, I
wouldn't drive Casey's route except with puncture proof tires, a
bright flashlight, and a .38 caliber detective special in my glove
box."-Jere Hoar, author of Body Parts and The Hit Written in a
hardboiled, noir style, Casey's Last Chance takes you back to the
days of Raymond Chandler, when characters knew only one
direction-straight ahead, their fedoras tilted into the wind.
Author Atkins writes fiction the way Jimi Hendrix played guitar,
with delicate fingering that explodes into soaring, lyrical riffs
when least expected. Casey Eubanks, is a small-time North Carolina
hustler on the run after angrily firing a shot over the head of his
girlfriend Orella during an argument and accidentally killing his
cousin. He seeks refuge with a crony, Clyde Point, who steers him
to a big operator in Memphis, Max Duren, a shadowy former Nazi with
a wide financial network across the South. The story takes place in
the U.S. South in July 1960 and is reflective of underworld
opposition to organized labor. Duren hires Casey to kill Ala
Gadomska, a labor organizer who is stirring up trouble at one of
Duren's mills in northern Mississippi. Casey sets up for a sniper
shot during a rally, but can't go through with it. She's beautiful,
makes sense, and maybe he's developing a conscience. Now he's on
the run again, this time from Duren's goons as well as the cops.
Enter Martin Wolfe, a freelance reporter investigating Duren's
operation. He tries to talk Casey into joining forces with him and
FBI agent Hardy Beecher to bring Duren down.Casey dumps Wolfe,
steals his car, and returns home to Orella. A Duren goon awaits him
there, however. A bloody shootout leaves Orella dead and convinces
Casey to partner with Wolfe and Beecher. It's Casey's last chance.
The three take off across the South to execute a plan-with the help
of Ala Gadomska-to destroy Duren. Everything works according to
plan until the explosive end, at which point no one is able to
escape unscathed.
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