On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, award-winning novelist Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, Fire Department. With three published books to his credit and a fourth nearly finished, he made the risky decision to try life as a full-time writer. On Fire, his first work of nonfiction, looks back on his life as a full-time firefighter. Unflinching accounts of daily trauma - from the blistering heat of burning trailer homes to...

Average guy Joe Ransom meets fifteen-year-old Gary Jones and offers him a chance at life.

Quirky gangsters, colorful locals, seemingly straitlaced professors, and fast-and loose police offiers. Botched choices and missed chances that separate people- and the renuous threads of love and coincidence that connect them.

"This anthem to the writer's own North Mississippi land and the hard-working, hard-drinking, hard-loving men it spawns is the story of one year in the lives of five characters - an old farmer with a new pond he wants stocked with baby catfish; a bankrupt fish pond stocker who secretly releases his forty-pound brood catfish into the farmer's pond; a little boy from the trailer home across the road who inadvertently hooks the behemoth catfish; the boy's...

In Bad in the Good Old Days author larry K. Brown tells the stories of some of the most notorious, corrupt and complex men and women in Old Wyoming and the West. - Provided by the publisher.

When a hard-living ex-con meets a homeless fifteen-year-old boy on the run from his father, he realizes that he may have to change his way of life; an undead criminal escapes from hell to avenge his daughter's murder; a college professor finds a piece of paper covered with numbers that has predicted major disasters in the last fifty years; follows an arms dealer as he contends with his conscience, his wife, his business partner, and pursuit by a determined...

A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.