Charlie Huston - The Shotgun Rule

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The first stand-alone thriller by critically acclaimed author Charlie Huston, The Shotgun Rule is a raw tale of four teenage friends who go looking for a little trouble - and find it.
Blood spilled on the asphalt of this town long years gone has left a stain, and it's spreading.
Not that a thing like that matters to teenagers like George, Hector, Paul, and Andy. It's summer 1983 in a northern California suburb, and these working-class kids have been killing time the usual ways: ducking their parents, tinkering with their bikes, and racing around town getting high and boosting their neighbors' meds. Just another typical summer break in the burbs. Till Andy's bike is stolen by the town's legendary petty hoods, the Arroyo brothers. When the boys break into the Arroyos' place in search of the bike, they stumble across the brothers' private industry: a crank lab. Being the kind of kids who rarely know better, they do what comes naturally: they take a stash of crank to sell for quick cash. But doing so they unleash hidden rivalries and crimes, and the dark and secret past of their town and their families.
The spreading stain is drawing local drug lords, crooked cops, hard-riding bikers, and the brutal history of the boys' fathers in its wake.

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When he turns the corner onto North P it’s like someone has thrown a rock through the surface of the day. The face of it shattering, the pieces falling to the ground, revealing another day behind it.

Weird.

Down the street, Timo is bunny hopping a bike on and off the curb.

Really weird. Like he can almost remember some things.

He looks at the sign on Fernando’s old front lawn, the one telling people the house will be sold at auction by the state. Tries to remember something about that house. Or is it another house?

Then the day puts itself back together and the stuff behind it is gone.

Andy raises an arm.

– Hey, Timo.

At the sound of Andy’s voice Timo flinches. At the sight of Andy he almost dumps the bike. He wrenches the handlebars to the side, rights the bike, and pedals blindly into the intersection at the next corner, almost getting creamed by a beat up ’64 Ford that roars by.

Andy watches his back disappear down the street and imagines the arc Timo’s body might have made if he had been traveling the necessary velocity to have intersected with the Ford, and he flinches when he sees the spray of blood that would have exploded from his head when it hit the ground.

George rides up.

– Hey.

Andy smiles.

– Hey, what’s up?

– Over by the park with some chick, saw you go by.

– Cool.

George nods down the street.

– That Timo?

– Yeah.

– He fuck with you?

– No. Saw me and took off. I was gonna maybe say something about his brothers and stuff. How much that must suck.

George looks at the Arroyos’ old house.

– Yeah. Don’t do that. Don’t talk to him. It sucks his brothers died, but he’s still a dick. Stay away from over here.

– OK. I was just riding around.

– How’s the bike?

– Fucking awesome.

George spits on his thumb and rubs some dry mud from the Redline’s handlebars.

– Take care of it.

– I am.

George stands on his pedals and pumps a couple times and pops a wheelie and starts to ride away.

– Let’s go home. It’s almost dinner time.

Andy looks back at the Arroyo brothers’ house.

George yells.

– Hurry up, I’ll teach you some tricks after we eat.

Andy looks away from the house.

– Cool.

He pulls the dead man’s cap down low over his mutilated head and follows his brother home.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CHARLIE HUSTON is the author of the Henry Thompson trilogy, which includes the Edgar Award-nominated Six Bad Things, as well as The Joe Pitt casebooks. He is also the writer of the recently relaunched Moon Knight comic book. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Virginia Louise Smith. Visit him at www.pulpnoir.com

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