The Takedown - Tapa dura

When the bullet-riddled body of his former lover and boss, sexy real-estate executive Dot Racine, turns up in the trunk of his car, ex-con Dick Miller suddenly finds himself in the middle of a deadly showdown with Dot's other ex-lover, cocaine dealer and killer Nestor Garcia, a man on the run from the cartels, and Cool Breeze, a ruthless female street warrior. 20,000 first printing.

Patrick Quinlan is the critically acclaimed author of Smoked.  Quinlan was the youngest child in a big, noisy, New York Irish-American family. Ten minutes late to dinner and the food was all gone. 
 
Other kids in the neighborhood wanted to become cops, or firemen, or crime kingpins.  He wanted to become Jimi Hendrix. At an early age, he became an accomplished and incorrigible liar, eventually finding work that made good use of this talent – journalist, political operative, copywriter, and now novelist.   
 
He lives on the coast of Maine with his wife, Joy Scott.  Check out his website at www.patrickquinlan.com.