About The New Ride in Town
War Veteran. Used car dealer. Occasional lover of beautiful women. Wanna be amnesiac.
Cramden Cooper is back on the street after serving time for fighting over his own little grid coordinate of the war with more enthusiasm than the Top Brass thought was appropriate.
Now that he’s out, he’s running a predatory used car lot in the seediest part of Denver to exact revenge on a society that’s turned its back on him. All he has left are a few broken men and the woman who refuses to give up on him, Kate Killingsworth. But, he’s convinced that the only thing he has to look forward to is a fiery head-on collision with the police, that is, if Kate’s West Highland Terrier doesn’t kill him first. But, he’s okay with all that, as long as he doesn’t have to spend time confronting his difficult past.
All that changes when a mysterious woman appears on his doorstep with a valuable automobile, and soon after, Kate stumbles over a murder. Neither is what it seems, and Cramden finds himself being tested in ways that will either destroy him, or amplify his unique talent for destruction.
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Author Bio:
Scoots Martin was the classic definition of a newspaperman. His career spanned three decades.
He began as a stringer covering the House of Un-American Activities and eventually worked his way up to the correspondence desk where he was known for his brash methods, unorthodox style, and unfashionable pencil-thin neckties. He was banished to the sports pages after his controversial coverage of the California Governor’s race between Timothy Leary and Ronald Reagan, but soon went independent to continue his political coverage.
For many years he was reduced to a byline in unreputable underground newspapers, the most notorious being The Denver Roast, which hit its zenith of popularity during the last years of the Vietnam conflict. Circulation collapsed after the American pull-out and Scoots was able to claw his way back into the establishment press by focusing on consumer fraud and police corruption.
He made a number of powerful enemies during his career and his death in 1986 occurred under suspicious circumstances. He left behind a trove of unpublished material on the supernatural and occult, most of which has been secreted to an undisclosed location where it is undergoing meticulous scrutiny before publication.