Monday, August 27, 2012

A FIGHT CARD ONE-TWO PUNCH COMBO!

A FIGHT CARD ONE-TWO PUNCH COMBO!

SPLIT DECISION / A MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD BY ERIC BEETNER

A One-Two Punch Combo combines both Fightcard adventures featuring Jimmy Wyler - Split Decision and A Mouth Full Of Blood - into one volume. The Fight Card series of novellas has been praised as, "lean and mean." "a hard hitting, fast moving series." and "you'll smell the sweat and leather in the air and find yourself bobbing and weaving with the action." In these two hard-hitting action stories mid-level boxer Jimmy Wyler continues the tradition.

SPLIT DECISION: Jimmy Wyler is a fighter punching his way straight to the middle. All he wants is to make enough dough to buy his girl, Lola, a ring. And maybe make the gang back at St. Vincent?s orphanage proud. A slick mobster named Cardone has an offer for Jimmy ? money, and lots of it ? for a fix. Jimmy takes the fight. The ring is almost on Lola's finger, until Jimmy collides with Whit - another mobster with another up-and-coming fighter. Whit has an offer of his own. Same fight, different fix. Now Jimmy is caught between two warring factions of the Kansas City underworld. He can't make a move without someone getting mad, getting even, or getting dead. From sweat-soaked fight halls to darkened alleyways, the countdown has begun. With his girl and his manager in the crossfire, everything Jimmy ever learned about fancy footwork and keeping his defenses up may not be enough - Fight night is approaching and nobody is going to be saved by the bell.

A MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD: A year after the pulse-pounding action of Split Decision, Jimmy Wyler is back in Chicago trying to put his life back together. Working a job washing dishes in a late night diner, Jimmy vows to never get into a boxing ring again. But then, someone needs him. Leo, a teenaged boy who fights hard against the city every day, could use a man like Jimmy. To help save him from his alcoholic father, and to save his only sister from a pimp bent on turning her out. Jimmy must fight again. Fight for the ones who can't fight for themselves. It will take him from fistfights in back alleys to no rules bouts with crowds screaming for blood and all the way back to the orphanage where he grew up. Along the way, blood will be spilled and knuckles will be bruised. More white-knuckle action and epic fights from the Fight Card series.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eric Beetner is the author of Dig Two Graves, co-author (with JB Kohl) of the novels One Too Many Blows To The Head and Borrowed Trouble, and he has written the novellas Fight Card: Split Decision and Fight Card: A Mouth Full Of Blood under the name Jack Tunney. His award-winning short fiction has appeared in Pulp Ink, Pulp Ink 2, D*CKED, Discount Noir, Grimm Tales, Off The Record, Murder In The Wind, Needle magazine, and the Million Writers Award: Best New Online Voices. He was voted Most Criminally Underrated Author by the Stalker Awards, which he takes a compliment. For more information, free stories and random thoughts visit www.ericbeetner.blogspot.com  

Monday, August 20, 2012

NEW FIGHT CARD WEBSITE!

NEW FIGHT CARD WEBSITE!

MUCH MORE CONTENT TO COME ★★★★★ GETTING THE FIGHT CARD BOOKS READY FOR A FULL SLATE OF TITLES FOR 2013 ★★★★★ MORE NOIRISH TALES SET IN THE '50S, PLUS THE DEBUT OF FIGHT CARD MMA, FIGHT CARD CONTEMPORARY, AND MAYBE (MAYBE) EVEN FIGHT CARD ROMANCE ★★★★★

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Monday, August 13, 2012

FIGHT FICTION: BUSHWHACKED!

FIGHT FICTION: BUSHWHACKED!

JAMES HOPWOOD

A GREAT NEW FIGHT FICTION TALE FROM ONE OF THE FIGHT CARD SEREIS TOP AUTHORS  . . . JUST 99¢ FOR YOUR KINDLE ...

BUSHWACKED

Trooper Gladstone Farrell of Victorian Colonial Police Force was corrupt as they came.

Farrell had a fearsome reputation throughout the Central Victorian Goldfields. He was not in the least concerned at keeping the peace. As far as he was concerned, 'Gold Fever' was about money, and he did everything possible to get his share. However, this did not include hard labor, such as digging or panning for gold. His methods were much simpler. He would allow others to do the hard graft, and when they had found a few ounces he would swoop – always in the capacity of a custodian of the law. Most of the miners in the area didn't have licenses, so when Farrell came calling, they either had to pay a portion of their diggings or face a hefty fine. Either way, Farrell got their gold or their money.

When Farrell swooped on the Clancy brothers for mining without a license, they made an unusual proposition to keep from going to jail. Danny Clancy was a bare-knuckles fighter; but not an honest one. His next fight was fixed, and his opponent was set to fall in the sixth round. Farrell muscled in on the deal, intending to collect two ways – first taking his cut from the Clancy brothers, and secondly, cleaning up with his own side bet.

James Hopwood (pen name of David James Foster), author of King of the Outback, a hard punching story in the Fight Card series is back with another knuckle bruising tale. A tale in which nothing is as it seems, and in which someone will be Bushwhacked!


Friday, August 10, 2012

PAUL D. BRAZILL’S JOINT TAKES ON FELONY FISTS!

PAUL D. BRAZILL’S JOINT TAKES ON FELONY FISTS!

YOU WOULD SAY THAT, WOULDN’T YOU – THE BLOG OF PAUL D. BRAZILL – GIVES A GREAT REVIEW TO FELONY FISTS . . .

... Jack Tunney’s breathless Felony Fists takes place in Los Angeles in the mid ’50s. Racketeer Mickey Cohen is trying to take over the fight game, pinning his hopes on Solomon King a massive heavyweight boxer ... Fast moving and hard hitting with a strong sense of place and time, Felony Fists is a great start to a highly addictive series ...

PAUL D. BRAZILL IS THE WORDSMITH BEHIND THIRTEEN SHOTS OF NOIR, DRUNK ON THE MOON, AND BRIT GRIT ...

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Sunday, August 5, 2012

FIGHT CARD: ROUGH EDGES TAKES ON THE TOMATO CAN COMEBACK!

FIGHT CARD: ROUGH EDGES TAKES ON THE TOMATO CAN COMEBACK!

OVER AT HIS ROUGH EDGES BLOG, JAMES REASONER REVIEWS TOMATO CAN COMEBACK CLAIMING IT IS ONE OF HIS FAVORITE BOOKS IN THE SERIES . . .

... Tomato Can Comeback [is]plenty hardboiled ... with its mean streets portrayal of Detroit and a sense of gritty, sweaty desperation reminiscent of the work of Orrie Hitt. Schwartz and Garrick are flawed but sympathetic characters, as is Garrick's old sergeant ...

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Saturday, August 4, 2012

FIGHT CARD: ROUGH EDGES GETS A MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD!

FIGHT CARD: ROUGH EDGES GETS A MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD!

OVER AT HIS ROUGH EDGES BLOG, JAMES REASONER GIVES A RAVE REVIEW TO FIGHT CARD: A MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD  . . .

. . . [The author] does a fine job with his characters, and he writes some bloody, really brutal fight scenes that are very effective. In addition, for the first time in this series that I recall, Father Tim, the mentor to all the fighters who come out of St. Vincent's, plays an on-screen role in the plot. I really raced through this one and thoroughly enjoyed it. Fight Card continues to be one of the strongest of the original e-book series, and if you haven't given it a try yet, you really should.

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Friday, August 3, 2012

FIGHT FICTION: CHAMPS AND BUMBS!

FIGHT FICTION: CHAMPS AND BUMS!

BUCKLIN MOON ~ EDITOR

LION BOOKS 1954

STORIES BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY, WILLIAM SAROYAN, JACK LONDON, BUDD SCHULBERG, NELSON ALGREEN, IRWIN SHAW, AND OTHERS.

TAG LINE: "SUPERB WRITERS WITH THEIR GREATEST STORIES OF THE MEN WHO LIVE, AND SOMETIMES DIE, IN THE WORLD'S MOST SAVAGE GAME."