"Calabama" is hillbilly noir in the vein of FX's "Justified," but set in the wilds of far Northern California. It's the story of Eric Newlin, a slacker who works for his father-in-law in the remote town of Redding. A Corvette flies over Eric's head in a freak accident, and he walks away without a scratch. Eric decides it's an omen: His life is about to change. And he's right. His life goes right down the toilet. Within days, he's fallen so far that he finds himself mixed up in a kidnapping scheme with a local crimelord named Rydell Vance. Leavened with dark humor, "Calabama" takes a wry look at California's rural, redneck interior, a place full of backwoods bitterness, a precarious place where it's easy for an outsider's life to spiral out of control. "Vintage Brewer, another funny hard-boiled page-turner! CALABAMA’s a raunchy backroads rumble where good guys and goons all hit the gravel. Sex, drugs, kidnapping, betrayal, double-barrel action … a rollicking read!" --Charlie Price, Edgar-winning author of "The Interrogation of Gabriel James." "CALABAMA is Steve Brewer at his absolute best. He had me from the opening line, "Never argue with a man whose tattoos outnumber his teeth." I mean, how do you argue with that? You can't, even if Brewer still has most of his teeth, which I think he does. Serious laughs, solid plotting, snappy pacing, and finely tuned characters. Hell, I wish I'd written it." --Bill Fitzhugh, award-winning author of "Pest Control." "Like Elmore Leonard, the writer whose work his most resembles, Brewer writes with a light and deft touch, bringing style and wit to the crime genre." --David Montgomery, Chicago Sun-Times