JIMMY THE STICK

Part hard-boiled thriller, part country house mystery — this is Max Alan Collins territory: it's 1932 and gunman Jimmy Quinn comes out of retirement to guard his former partner’s family.

Jimmy Quinn was a gunman, bootlegger, and bagman, whose mobster pals included Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, until a bullet in the leg and the murder of Arnold Rothstein ended his career. Quinn bought a speakeasy in downtown Manhattan and settled into a quiet retirement—until the day he learns that famous aviator Charles Lindbergh’s baby has been kidnapped, and on that same day he hears that his old friend and partner Walter Spencer wants a word. Can Quinn stay in his home and protect his family? A few days guarding Spencer’s beautiful wife should be easy work, but Quinn’s past and the suburbs quickly become more dangerous than the mean streets of New York City.