January Magazine, "The Rap Sheet,"  

Pierce's Picks for September - November

Wolf   Point (Unbridled Books), by Edward Falco. Heads must   shake at the evident naiveté of Thomas "T"   Walker, a middle-aged businessman who, after being busted   for child pornography (thanks to his retrieval of a suspect   photo from the Internet) stops to pick up a hitchhiking   couple on the road from Virginia to Canada. As the trio   wheel north, the fetching young Jenny flirts diligently with Walker, as her tightly wound boyfriend, Lester, grows   angrier by the mile. The trip gives Falco's protagonist   ample time to contemplate his life and past mistakes, all   leading to revelations about Jenny and her association with   Lester. There's a touch of James M. Cain in this thriller,   which Falco buttresses with character exposition that flows   from the troubles of our time.

J. Kingston Pierce