Jitter Joints

In "Detox, " award-winning journalist Howard Swindle produces an appealingly flawed mystery protagonist in Jeb Quinlin, a Dallas homicide detective combating crime -- and his own personal demons.Jeb Quinlin has been issued an ultimatum by his boss and wife: dry out or get out. So he hits his favorite bar for a last fifth of Wild Turkey and reluctantly enters detox. Once inside, Jeb is forced to confront his years of alcoholism with the help of Librium, hard-core therapy, and AA meetings. But someone is taking the words of the Big Book too far, as rehab patients begin to die mysteriously, each tagged with one of AA's Twelve Steps. Now Jeb is on a sobering hunt for the Twelve-Step killer, a twisted psychopath who's taking the battle with the bottle to horrifying new heights...Swindle, Howard is the author of 'Jitter Joints' with ISBN 9780312970543 and ISBN 0312970544.