Description Joe Ricker writes with a voice reminiscent of Jim Thompson and Raymond Carver.
This collection of stories is set in the darkest corners of New England, where the damaged American underbelly emerges.
The characters in these stories will challenge every notion you have of right and wrong, and you'll quickly realize that you've probably passed some of the characters in these stories on the streets.
Be glad you kept walking.
Walkin' After Midnight is a searing and poignant representation of the shadowy side of humanity, the part of our culture that we don't want to believe exists.
But it does, and the author that Esquire referred to as A man of letters who's gentle in the way that only the toughest of hard-asses can be has brought it to your doorstep.
Praise for WALKIN' AFTER MIDNIGHT: Joe Ricker is a hard-boiled poet in the tradition of Charles Bukowski.
He writes of lonely, scarred men, damaged women, and of haunted places we all know.
These shorts are served straight up with no chaser.
Like the best of noir, it's about people with few options and often no way out.
Highly recommended.
--Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Forsaken and The Redeemers Tough yet lyrical, bristling with hard-won wisdom, these stories knock you out of any comfort zone you may have found and into the red.
Ricker knows people, violence and landscape.
He knows truth, too.
And these stories beat their fists like drums.
--Tom Franklin, New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Joe Ricker's stories are like windows with ragged blinds twisted open to reveal the lives that go on all around us, in spite of us, and sometimes are us.
His characters are dark, desperate, and fascinatingly vivid.
Read Ricker and have your eyes opened.
--Gerry Boyle, international bestselling author of Once Burned, a Jack Mc Morrow mystery Walkin' after Midnight crackles with danger, and this noir collection of short stories announces Joe Ricker as a provocative n.
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