Spit and Polish

Wild Bill McClintock is the fastest gun in Big Woo. Gerritt Reinhardt might be the smartest man in it. One talks like a cowboy and shoots like the devil; the other traded a corporate conference room for a life of adventure and never looked back. Their records aren't spotless, but somehow this pair of polar opposites has forged a reputation as Big Woo's premier enforcers.

Then they catch an easy job on the local space station. Bill and Reinhardt learn fast that no job is easy when an ambitious biotech startup takes an interest in the wetware behind Wild Bill's impossible aim. One unhinged CEO and two lethal operatives turn a simple snatch-and-grab into a nightmare of abduction, coercion, and no small quantity of legal paperwork.

Maybe they screw up now and then. Maybe they aren't ready for the big leagues. But Wild Bill and Gerritt Reinhardt have never backed down from a fight, no matter how lopsided, ill-advised, or unwinnable. So when trouble comes looking for their dirty corner of the galaxy, they ride out to meet it head-on.

Spit and Polish is a hard-boiled science fiction thriller from the world of The Fixer, where man-made monsters and monsters made men trade lives and fortunes with equal disdain. This time, two men defined by lifetimes of failure and loss decide to balance those scales in blood and red ink.