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Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Monte Dutton's fourth novel is a tale of the corrosive effect of patronage and a prominent man's rise and fall. Denny Frawley is a corrupt prosecutor with political ambition. Hal Kinley, who has known Frawley since the two played high school football together, is a good cop who has watched his old friend grow into an unscrupulous monster. Among the obstacles in Frawley's path to the governorship are an alcoholic spouse, a scheming mistress, and his drug-dealing twins. Frawley's two teen-aged kids are as awash in corruption as their father. Kinley's son has been drawn into their orbit. Kinley is determined to save his son and stop his old teammate. The odds do not favor him. Be forewarned: th...
Lightning in a Bottle
Barrie Jarman is the hope of racing's future because he is a link to its past. The teen-aged native of Spartanburg, South Carolina, is talented, articulate, intelligent, brash, and mischievous. To the image-conscious braintrust that runs the sport, Barrie is a wild Mustang - and, yes, he drives one - who must be broken. Ain't no way. The yarn is told mostly through the narration of Uncle Charlie, a racing veteran who took in Barrie at age 16 and helped him get a shot at the big time. Only Charlie, it seems, can nudge Barrie in the right direction, and only Charlie knows when it's time to get out of his way. Monte Dutton's sixth novel is an ode to his acknowledged field of expertise. For twenty years, Dutton crisscrossed the country, writing about automobile racing.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
A veteran sports columnist unexpectedly loses his job. A rebellious young writer takes a weed-clouded trip to Southern California with a tawdry dropout. An English teacher at a prep school toils in vain on a breakthrough novel, watching his teen-aged pupils grow rebellious and decadent. All are related. All are drawn together as they gradually learn they are pawns in a vast illegal conspiracy. The columnist's new job is not one he chooses. The young writer mistakenly believes she is selling drugs by choice and rationalizes it in the name of writing a tell-all novel. The teacher sees in his charges mistakes he has already made. One is another's daughter. She is the other's lover. Everything w...
The Latter Days
Clyde Kinlaw is a washed-up baseball coach who wants to prove it isn't so. Kinlaw was a good ballplayer who became a loyal company man once he retired. He managed his old team, the Portland Loggers. Now he's a scout who doesn't feel as if the new generation of talent evaluators puts any stake in his judgment anymore. He wants to prove them wrong but doesn't know how. Then Kinlaw stumbles upon Taiquon Wattson. Kinlaw's only ally in the Portland front office, Frank Staley Jr., sends him to evaluate Ryne Standback, a first baseman considered one of the country's top high-school prospects. Standback doesn't impress Kinlaw, who dismisses him as a privileged white kid with all the skill money can ...
Cowboys Come Home
Ennis Middlebrooks and Harry Byerly are warriors, and the time for fighting is past. They're cowboys, and when they get back home to Texas, the time for cowboys is passing, too.Monte Dutton's fifth novel, Cowboys Come Home, begins on the island of Peleliu, where the two privates somehow manage to save themselves when cut off from their fellow Marines by the Japanese. Ennis and Harry come home to a hero's welcome, but life gets complicated after that.The Middlebrooks ranch, east of Janus, near the Oklahoma border, is rundown, and Ennis's father is dying. Harry moves in, Mama Middlebrooks moves out, and Ennis takes a job as a deputy sheriff under a wise but aging lawman, Judson Lawson. His lit...
Longer Songs
Novelist Monte Dutton has long dabbled in songwriting. Most of his songs tell brief stories derived from observations of everyday life. It occurred to the author that some of his songs could be expanded into short stories. Dutton spins a yarn of a hapless but talented hitchhiker, of an old baseball coach charged with straightening out a spoiled slugger, of a co-ed who takes a walk on the wild side, and the owner of a fruitstand who tries to give some advice to a friend's grandson. Longer Songs consists of eleven such tales, all of which grew out the author's songs.
Crazy of Natural Causes
Chance Benford is in need of redemption, even though, at the beginning of Monte Dutton's Crazy by Natural Causes, he doesn't know why. Even while coaching the Elmore County Mustangs to their best season in twenty-one years, Benford is a wreck. His wife's left him. He's losing whatever morals he ever had, and one result is a crushing upset achieved disgracefully by him and his charges. In the beginning, Benford is a bad man, and bad things happen to him. After being fired for hosting a scandalous party at his Kentucky hilltop home, Benford smokes marijuana with his team's best player, hops in his pickup truck, pulls out of the school parking lot and, almost immediately, a coal miner, drug-add...
The Audacity of Dope
Riley Mansfield is not your typical hero. He writes songs for a living, smokes pot for recreation and just wants to live and let live. But when he foils an apparent terrorist plot to blow up a small plane over his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, he is thrust into the spotlight, which is exactly where he doesn't want to be. Suddenly, everyone wants a piece of him, including both major political parties. They aren't willing to take no for an answer, partly because it's an election year and partly because what happened on the plane may be a bit more complicated than it appears. Emboldened by his own obstinacy, Mansfield and his girl Friday, Melissa Franklin, lead the government and the ...
True to the Roots
An intimate series of portraits of and visits with musicians who are part of the musical genre known as Americana, or alternative country.
Life Gets Complicated
At the age of nineteen, Barrie Jarman has grown up in a hurry. He is poised on the edge of stock car racing stardom. He's making ten times as much money as a year ago. He has a top-flight ride with a top-flight team in the top flight of the sport. He is exactly where he wants to be.Life Gets Complicated. It's veteran motorsports writer Monte Dutton's sequel to Lightning in a Bottle, the acclaimed novel about the kid with the character of his generation but the spirit of stock car racing's rowdy past.At the end of Barrie's frantic first year, he parties with his girlfriend, Angela Hughston; his best friend, her brother Errol; his new pilot, Rafe Trujillo; his teammate, veteran Jay Higbe; his ...
