Pulpland: One for Cowboy

Set against the romantic, mysterious backdrop of rough-and-tumble 1934 Los Angeles, PULPLAND (One for Cowboy) is the two-fisted tale of bartender Bobby Boyle's strange adventure. An elderly agent of the long-defunct Department 321 leaves a curious key with the only person he trusts: Boyle, his one and only bartender. Everyone at the bar just called the old fellow "Cowboy," on account of the hat and the duster he wore. But this key would be the thing that changed Boyle's life forever, along with his companions'. It's time for Cowboy to disappear for good and he needs to recruit someone to protect the secrets he's leaving behind. Bobby reluctantly agrees but he and his clairvoyant gypsy lover, their friend the Russian butcher, a street hoodlum named Jimmy The Gaspipe and the formidable Father Caesar Castellucci are swept into the enterprise. Federal agents, immortal banditos and denizens of the lower planes are among the forces working to deter the companions. Inspired by the pulp fiction of the first half of the 20th century, this is the fast-paced adventure that begins the PULPLAND series of adventure novels.