Under a Black Flag

The new Sonny Haynes novel by Starlite Pulp managing editor Brian Townsley is now available for pre-order. The third installment in the series, Black Flag picks up in 1953. 
 
It’s March of 1953 when an actress is sexually assaulted on the set of a Western film in Twentynine Palms, California, and fixer and ex-LAPD homicide roach Sonny Haynes is brought in to manage the spiraling situation. Add in a Palm Springs mob boss, a pair of bodies at the Starlite Hotel & Resort, and some depraved home movies from a questionable source, and Sonny has his hands full in Under a Black Flag, the culmination of which leads to the heart of darkness itself in the Southern California desert.
 
“Townsley’s prose pen is the puncture of cholla, the perfumed knuckles of hurt and loss, the hope of rain-swept creosote…that hope captured in adopted, teenage Katie and her poker strategies and courage. That hope captured in Sonny Haynes, who will need all of his back-alley swagger, easy savagery, brave heart, and trustworthy crew to face the devils on Highway 62.”
-Bruce Craven, author of Fast Sofa and Sweet Ride
 
“Historical and frighteningly contemporary, Under a Black Flag is jet-fueled and gloriously ruthless.”
-Rob Roberge, author of Liar 
 
Cover photo by Jens Ochlich. 299 pages.
Books are expected to ship mid-April.