Gutshot Straight: A Novel in Bloomington, MN

“Lou Berney’s novel is so energetic, so droll, and so wheezingly funny that it accomplished what no book ever has before: it made me forget to eat lunch.”
—Stephen Harrigan,
New York Times
bestselling author of
Challenger Park
A fast and funny caper in the tradition of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and the Coen Brothers,
Gutshot Straight
brings a fresh new talent into the crime fiction fold: Louis Berney. He’s already won raves for his short fiction collection
The Road to Bobby Joe and Other Stories
(“Rivals the work of contemporary hotshots T.C. Boyle and Ralph Lombreglia” —
Chicago Tribune
). With
Gutshot Straight,
Berney is “all in”—sure to win a fervent following with the story of “Shake” Bouchon, fresh out of prison and on the straight and narrow path…after maybe just
one
last job.