Nitro Mountain: A Novel

"If you need a blood and whiskey soaked waterslide out of your life for approximately seven hours (or however long it takes you to read 224 pages), this is your book. Lee Clay Johnson tells the tale of Leon, a bass player with a broken arm, who is asked by the woman he loves to murder a dangerous man living on the top of a mountain. Will he do it? Not really the question of this book. Johnson writes like lightning, and this wild, careening ride through mountain roads, dirt-covered couches, cold vans and burning bars jumps perspectives and makes you laugh when you least expect it. If you want to see literary talent applied in refreshingly new ways, come along; there’s blood ahead — and betrayal, exploitation, arson, unthinkable violence and all the other byproducts of people reaching, straining, for a better life."