Gutshot Straight: A Novel

When ex-con Charles "Shake" Bouchon frees Gina Clement, a housewife he is supposed to deliver to a sleazy strip-club owner, he and Gina soon have the Armenian mob on their tail and they must flee to Panama while toting rare and valuable religious artifacts.
When ex-con Charles "Shake" Bouchon frees Gina, a housewife he is supposed to deliver to a sleazy 400-pound strip-club owner, he and Gina soon have the Armenian mob on their tail and they must flee to Panama while toting religious artifacts that are just as valuable to the thugs as Gina is. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
“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 ParkA 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.