I am excited today to be bringing you an extract from Santa Fe Psychosis by Max Talley. Thank you to https://zooloosbookdiary.co.uk/zooloos-blog-tours and Dark Edge Press for organising this tour and having me along.
Synopsis
Jackson Bardo, an out-of-work Private Investigator, is summoned to New Mexico by his ex-girlfriend. Her life is being threatened and she needs money. But he doesn’t have enough when he arrives. And days later, she disappears.
Joining forces with his friend, Police Detective Diego Juarez, the pair set out to find her.
During their search, Juarez is given the job of locating a missing teenager. But the discovery of another girl – dead – leads them to uncover a child trafficking operation.
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Extract from Santa Fe Psychosis
“Bardo,” Jenny shouted from afar. “Jackson. Out here. I’m hurt. He’s coming!”
Bardo tilted forward into the howling wind and followed the snaking trail over empty land, stumbling here and there on a stone or a root. After he face-planted into a ditch, he heard a female scream. But farther away now. Bardo rose and kept staggering along with a twisted ankle. Two hundred yards, three hundred yards. A figure stood ahead, arms extended like a scarecrow. Turned out to be a dead tree. When he stopped to rest, someone launched into his midsection, knocking him into a clump of sagebrush. A man in a ski mask and a hoodie slugged Bardo twice in the stomach then repeatedly in the head.
He collapsed, feigning unconsciousness.
The attacker squatted down to judge his condition. Bardo slammed a fist into the bridge of the man’s nose. Cartilage cracked. The assailant groaned in pain and toppled off balance, landing sprawled on the dirt. Bardo struck him hard in the jaw and again near the left eye. Bardo tried to unmask him, but the man pulled his knees to his chest, then using both legs, kicked. Bardo fell backwards until his spine cracked against a tree stump. In agony, he struggled to stand, but immediately felt dizzy—liquid lightning appearing on the periphery of his vision. A flash and he found himself sprawled horizontal, the starlight extinguished.
Author Bio – Max Talley
Max DeVoe Talley is a writer and artist from New York City who lives in Southern California. He began writing in 1997 and contributed entertainment, food, and humor columns to two California weekly newspapers.
His near future thriller, Yesterday We Forget Tomorrow, was published by Damnation Books in 2014. Since then, his crime fiction has appeared in two Hardboiled anthologies from Dead Guns Press and in Dames & Doppelgangers from Borda Books, while his short stories have appeared in fifty journals, including Vol.1 Brooklyn, Atticus Review, Entropy, Bridge Eight, Santa Fe Literary Review, and Litro.
Talley’s curated surreal anthology, Delirium Corridor, debuted in December 2020.
Website : http://maxdevoetalley.com/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/mactalley
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