"Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long accused of manslaughter for gunning down a fellow lawman? Say it ain't so! But if it ain't, then why is Marshal Billy Vail demanding his badge? And why has Longarm hit the bottle, gotten thrown out by his landlady, and ended up in jail on a drunk and disorderly charge? Once you hit bottom, there's nowhere to go but up. In this case, 'up' is getting a job as a bouncer in a house of ill repute. Longarm is perfectly willing...

"Expulsed Harvard student and ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, Joe Brody is getting his life back together, living with his grandmother in Queens and taking what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his night reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian...