Hogdoggin': The Next Chapter of the Billy Lafitte Sage

by Anthony Neil Smith

Book Overview

Former Deputy Billy Lafitte is a no-good, grits-for-brains, despicable and dangerous traitor Special Agent Franklin Rome is sure of it. So sure, in fact, that he's willing to investigate outside... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606480243
• ISBN13: 9781606480243
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Bleak House Books
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

In a year stacked full of top notch crime, here's one of the best

A whole stack of nasty characters are set to collide. They are obsessed, they are dark, they are capable of extreme violence and their missions all overlap. Rogue cop on the run, Billy Lafitte (last seen in the excellent YELLOW MEDICINE), returns here, roided up, biker-affiliated and ready for the inevitable confrontation with FBI agent Rome, a man hellbent on bringing him down. The animosity between the two may be the spine of the book, but HOGDOGGIN' is very much an ensemble piece and there are plenty more characters waiting for their cue to enter. HOGDOGGIN' is Smith's noir answer to THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. With bikers, steroids, and...well, that would be telling. Just buy it.

In Love With Smith's Deeply Scary People

I'm not sure what it says about me that I love Billy Lafitte, ex-cop, 'roid rager, off-the-grid fugitive with anger management issues. But, damn, I do. And I love Smith's harrowing, twisted, treacherous tale of misplaced love and revenge. If you're in the hunt for a wild ride, you've found it. And even if you're not, live a little. Grab hold of this book and hang the hell on.

Nothin but the dirties!

THere's nothing kind here in this, the second, Billy Lafitte novel from Anthony Neil Smith. Yes, our favorite gone-rogue cop is still riding out his crazy transplant to Minnesota and going --literally-- hog wild all over the northern parts of the US. If you like your crime fiction dark as pitch and your hard-boiled burned through the shell, then Hogdoggin' is a must read for you to get into your hands. Smith spares no details and shows no fear as he gives us nothing but the dirtiest dirties in this awesome book!

Hogdoggin'--A welcome return to Yellow Medicine county

Anthony Neil Smith returns with a blood thirsty, intensely satisfying follow up to his third novel, Yellow Medicine. For fans of Smith, his fourth novel Hogdoggin' is a welcome return to a group of memorable characters--particularly shamed crooked cop Billy Lafitte and the obsessive Federal Agent Franklin Rome--and settings that we wished Smith could have explored further with the first book, and for first time readers, Hogdoggin' provides a solid introduction to Smith's unique, hard charging prose style. The action picks up 9 months after the explosive events of Yellow Medicine and we find former cop Billy Lafitte stripped of his police shield and branded as a terrorist and now living underground with an outlaw biker club known as the Steel Army. Lafitte is second-in-command of the club (Under the enigmatic and cancer ridden leader, Steel God.)and is preparing to take over the gang at any minute. (either by force or by Steel God succumbing to his long term, untreated illness.)Lafitte is haunted by the events at the end of Yellow Medicine, particularly the death of friend and sometime lover, Drew, and his inability to have a part in the lives of his two young children. Lafitte has just taken part in a "trial" and execution of the Steel Army's former Sargent-at-Arms, Red Gator, when he receives a call from a secretly stashed cell phone letting him know that he has to return to Yellow Medicine county and that Federal Agent Franklin Rome has been harassing Lafitte's ex-wife in an attempt to draw Lafitte out of hiding. And as expected, Lafitte leaves the Steel Army and sets out to vainly try to protect his family. Needless to say, it's all down hill from there. Much like Yellow Medicine, Smith sets up Hogdoggin' as a slow burn, carefully building tension and atmosphere and then having the narrative explode under his careful hand.There's a lot to like about the novel, Smith's writing is razor sharp and there is rarely a misstep through out it's entire 320 pages. Fans of so-called "neo" noir will be thrilled by the blood and action, and in the same breath fans of such transgressive writer's as Chuck Palahniuk and Will Christopher Baer will be pleased by Smith's overall skills as a writer and chronicler of deviant lifestyles. Overall, Smith's ability as a writer easily tackles the many threads and sub-plots of this novel and leaves you begging for more. Highly recommended.

Hogdoggin' is Neil Smith's Masterpiece of Noir/Hardboiled Fiction

I read the first book Yellow Medicine in two sittings. Following Billy Lafitte, a disgruntled police officer. Who was judged for his bad deeds down South and moved North. Created even more bad deeds. But when I got Hogdoggin' in the mail I was blown away. Billy is now part of a motorcycle gang led by Steel God. Hiding out from Rome, a rogue FBI agent from Yellow Medicine who wants Billy's blood. I won't spoil this. Just buy the damn book. Try to put it down. It's a well written adrenaline-fueled-noir/hardboiled masterpiece. A page turner. I think we've found our new Jim Thompson with a touch of Hunter S. Thompson.