Bøker av Manny Torres

In this beach town, where tourists party day and night, crime takes no vacation.Cabrones Perros is a rum-soaked crime-comedy in the style of Elmore Leonard's Swag and Stick. Though it can be read as a standalone piece, it concludes Manny Torres' Dog Trilogy.Fresh out of prison, ex-boxer Nolin is tasked with going to Odyssey, Florida, to have a man killed. On a parallel course are several underworld characters with their own agendas for heading into this crime-riddled city. Enforcers are en route to establish the family business on the Florida coast. This includes Shank, who was last seen in Perras Malas, dead-set on vengeance against those who killed her family. There is also the upcoming gangstress Shady, who's doing a soft takeover while going up against a family of Eastern-European human-traffickers on the brink of owning the city.These groups converge where drugs are cheap and human-trafficking is prevalent. There's a slow war gaining ground on all sides, clashing over the waterside territory. It can only end with scorched sand and severed heads.

Loaded guns, lesbian love, inverted expectations, and lecherous mafia-types make this a novella not to forget. Kika was a map of bruises. She was a cicatrix of vengeance, the scar of a wounded mind, the fetid and gangrenous lesion of a town's malevolent psyche. And she's come back to Carbon, Georgia, to find her missing sister.Fighting tooth and nail, wielding her trusty crowbar, Hell hath no fury like the violent storm Kika brings to Carbon. She'll tear through the town and its criminal underworld until she finds her sister.Inspired by Virginie Despentes' Baise Moi, The Shit of God by Diamanda Galas, and Cynthia Pelayo's Into the Fire and All the Way Through, this is the story of violence inflicted on women, and the cold vengeance served to those responsible. Informed also by female revenge films such as Coffy, Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion, I Spit on Your Grave, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Perras Malas delivers several acts of vengeance to the evil men of Carbon.

Soledad was 16 and preparing for college when her mother left her to care for her drug-addicted father. Having to live in the violent and gritty streets of pre-gentrification New York, she learns to survive by any means necessary, working off a family debt to some unsavory and corrupt men. Will the streets consume her with violence and vice, or will she triumph and escape to a normal life? In the style of Ms. 45, Leon and Taxi Driver comes this tense and violent novella from the author of Dead Dogs. Praise for Manny Torres and his debut novel Dead Dogs: "This novel brings U Black Pulp Fiction/Urban Noir & Scalding Savagery in 150 pages of Uberiffic writing. Plain n simple THE MAN can flat-out WRITE." DuVay Knox, author of Soul Collector and The Pussy Detective "Exquisite. Simply exquisite. [Manny] Torres says he's inspired by the great dialogue writer George V. Higgins. And Dead Dogs is dialogue-driven, so it's going to read either like Higgins or wannabe Higgins, right? No. Manny Torres is a unique and talented writer with his own voice. I loved Dead Dogs. It's dark, brutal, and funny." Andy Rausch, author of American Trash and Bloody Sheets "DEAD DOGS is a bloody stew of conflict and violence simmered in a cauldron of streetwise crime fiction." Brian Bowyer, author of Sinister Mix and Road Narrows "You might want to put down the book at first and take a shower after spending so much time with these characters but stick with it and it will be a fun and morally dubious ride. Really looking forward to seeing more from Manny Torres." Randal Richardson, writer and director of Perdido Y Desintegrado "A grisly tale you won't be able to put down!" Elford Alley, author of Ash and Bone: Tales of Terror, Find Us and Other Stories and In Search of the Nobility, TX Wildman.