"If you can picture the intellectual and physical mayhem that might have resulted from a Jim Thompson and Harry Crews collaboration, you’d be on the right track. But Anthony Neil Smith is his own writer—and a very fine one, indeed."
—Booklist

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Hogdoggin' summary

Former Deputy Billy Lafitte is a no-good, crap-for-brains, despicable and dangerous traitor — Special Agent Franklin Rome is sure of it. So sure, in fact, that he’s willing to investigate outside departmental bounds. Willing to blackmail and bribe his fellow lawmen into helping him. Willing to ferret Lafitte out of whatever snake-hole he’s hidden himself in, and do what the too-lax government wouldn’t let him do back in Yellow Medicine county, just months ago…

And Rome’s plan is working. Squeeze a man’s ex-wife, especially an ex-wife as unstable as Ginny Lafitte, and watch her overprotective man appear from thin air to stand by his family. No matter that Rome’s had to bend a few rules in order to make it happen; Billy’s end will justify Rome’s means.

Of course, Rome didn’t count on Billy riding in to save the day on a turquoise motorcycle — with a beard, fifty extra pounds of muscle, and the weight of a man named Steel God at his back. Nor did he think Billy would go and get himself caught up with paint-huffing, knife-wielding rednecks. And Rome certainly never predicted that a broken-hearted, vengeful woman named Colleen would be just as hot for Lafitte’s blood as he is …

Praise for Hogdoggin'

"If you can picture the intellectual and physical mayhem that might have resulted from a Jim Thompson and Harry Crews collaboration, you’d be on the right track. But Anthony Neil Smith is his own writer—and a very fine one, indeed."
—Booklist

"Fans of darkest noir will be most satisfied."
—Publishers Weekly

With Lafitte, Smith does his best to demonstrate exactly what “antihero” really means. Just when you find yourself willing to climb on Lafitte’s hog and ride along, a crack appears in Lafitte’s armor that leaves the reader shaken, and spins the story in new and darker directions. Being a storyteller of considerable skill, Smith saves Lafitte’s most brazen acts for the conclusion, adding new layers to a character the reader will have thought they understood by that point.
—Crimespree Magazine

Born and raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Anthony Neil Smith now lives on the frozen prairies of rural Minnesota, where he teaches at Southwest Minnesota State University.  He's the author of Yellow Medicine, Psychosomatic, and The Drummer.   He's also the editor of the online noir fiction zine Plots with Guns.