BRAD DOLAN'S BACK COUNTRY WARFARE, Noir Novel of War Vet Against Lynchers

"Swiftly paced, extraordinary." Long Beach California Press-Telegram

Just north of Lake Okeechobee in central Florida, Brad Dolan's Ford goes bad, He pulls in for repairs, finds a sack for the night, then goes out for a drink and maybe some action with the dice... All routine enough, except that the guy is Brad Dolan, no ordinary guy, and the town is Carterville, no ordinary town.

It's back-country: jukes fronting for gambling joints, bootleg whisky, sporting houses, cockfightseverything to take a man's mind off his own troubles. Down here, Dolan finds out, a man can be rubber-hosed for buying a drink for a blonde who's made a pass at him. A man named Bingo gives the orders, and a fat country-sheriff jumps.

Brad Dolan and Carterville don't mix. Then Dolan hears an innocent Black man is being framed and is set for a lynching.
Dolan's tired of being pushed around and seeing others being pushed around. He's decided to do some pushing himself.

"A well-written story, startling for it characterization" Pasadena California Independent

This noir thriller is about a guy named Brad Dolan, whose scars run deep. He thought he'd worn out his conscience at Guadalcanal, Bastogne, the Inchon Reservoir and in a New York apartment, where a restless model forgot she was his wife.
Now he's drifting deep in back country Florida, the part you never see on the travel posters. Down here everything belongs to man named Ringothe jukes, the sheriff, the hustlers. Now Ringo wants to own Dolan.

But Dolan comes high!

"Literate, hard-paced violence, remindful of James M. Cain. The Florida background could only have been written by a man who has lived there. Brad Dolan is believably tough, mentally as well as physically." Brett Halliday, creator Mike Shayne

"A tough, hard-boiled and absorbingly interesting story of a Florida-racketeer, Back Country Warfare tells what happened to a Korean War veteran when he ventured into a racketeer's territoryand this clash between two pretty rough boyswinds up in a spectacular climax." The Galveston Daily News

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