{"id":16949,"date":"2016-12-20T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16949"},"modified":"2020-07-23T19:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:48:51","slug":"holy-death-a-billy-lafitte-novel-by-anthony-neil-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16949","title":{"rendered":"Holy Death (A Billy Lafitte novel) by Anthony Neil Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z122016zview_holydeath_cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1943402256?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1943402256\"><strong>Holy Death<\/strong><\/a> (A Billy Lafitte novel) by Anthony Neil Smith<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paperback: 264 pages<br \/>\nPublisher: Down &amp; Out Books<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One-thirty in the morning in a truck stop outside of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1943402256?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1943402256\"><strong>Holy Death<\/strong><\/a> is the fourth yarn in Anthony Neil Smith&#8217;s Billy Lafitte series. &nbsp;If you&#8217;re not familiar with it and you like crime stories, then you&#8217;re in for a treat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Billy Lafitte is an ex-cop, an ex-con and is on the run from a prison escape. &nbsp;Lafitte&#8217;s in bad shape from steroid abuse and the wear and tear of escaping from the joint during a prison riot. &nbsp;Lafitte wants to make it back to his one true love to give her the merciful death she wants and then he hopes to disappear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As luck [at least Lafitte&#8217;s luck] would have it, he crosses paths with&nbsp;DeVaughn Lagrenade, a professional gambler, ex-gang banger and brother of a kid that Lafitte killed. &nbsp;Now in addition to all the cops looking for him, Lafitte has Lagrenade, his psycho girlfriend and members of Lagrenade&#8217;s gang hunting him down. &nbsp;As they close in on him, Lafitte knows it&#8217;s his last chance to make it right [or as right as he can] for the love of his life and his dead child&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1943402256?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1943402256\">Holy Death<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>is not for the faint of heart of the sqeemish, but if you like a gritty, modern crime story, then this may be for you. &nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1943402256?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1943402256\">Holy Death<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>is the fourth in the Billy Lafitte series and I&#8217;m hoping there&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z122016zview_holydeath_author.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Death (A Billy Lafitte novel) by Anthony Neil Smith Paperback: 264 pages Publisher: Down &amp; 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