Description
How can a split-second decision change your life?
While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of lowlife burglar Freddy. Although he's hailed as a small-town hero, Richard soon finds himself fearing for his family's safety when Freddy s ex-con father, Ben rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge. But not all is as it seems in this seemingly peaceful community, and soon Richard's life begins to unravel into a dark underworld of corruption and violence that will pit him against the most unlikely of foes.
Adapted from the Joe R. Lansdale novel,
Cold In July is a pulpy Southern noir whose twists and turns continue to pile up right up to its shocking conclusion.