The Bait Shack »

Author Harry Hughes is a Viet Nam and Woodstock vet, an award winning popular song writer and a professor of psychology. Seven years of his life in New York is the subject of the National Book Critics Circle Award nominated book, Homefires; An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America, by Donald Katz (Harper Collins Press, 1992). Harry's short story, A River Too Distant, was published, along with works by Edward Albee and Joseph Heller, in Hampton Shorts, Vol. 3, 1998. He currently lives in Utah. The Bait Shack is his first novel.

In this black comedy of crime we meet a cutthroat businessman,out for what he can get,a psycho hitman, out for what he can hurt, a mobster, greedy to enhance the value of his beach-front property, a shameless Native American attorney who gives new meaning to the term 'Indian Affairs', an ex-Air Force Major suffering from delusions of easy money, and an obsessed producer of grisly news videos.

Johnny Nys

If you're looking for lyrical prose to pull you through a captivating story, lending the characters a spark of vitality with real life dialogue unrivalled in modern day literature, "The Bait Shack" is for you.