When you want someone found, you call bounty hunter Jake Halligan. He’s smart, tough, and best of all, careful on the job. But none of those skills seem to help him when a shadowy group starts taking his life apart piece by piece. First Jake comes home to find a dead body in his gun safe. He thinks it’s a warning—and when you drag people back to jail for a living, the list of people who want to … who want to send that kind of message is very long indeed. With backup from his sister Frankie, an arms dealer and dapper criminal, Jake plunges into the Idaho underworld, confronting everyone from brutal Aryan assassins to cops who want his whole family in jail.
But as Jake soon discovers, those threats are small-time compared to the group that’s really after him. And nothing—not bounty hunting, not even all his years in Iraq—can prepare him for what’s coming next. Jake’s about to become a player in the most dangerous game ever invented…
Boise Longpig Hunting Club is a wild ride into the dark heart of the American dream, where even the most brutal desires can be fulfilled for a price, and nobody is safe from the rich and powerful.
Praise for BOISE LONGPIG HUNTING CLUB:
“Nick Kolakowski spins a ripping pulp yarn of smart-ass bounty hunters and bad-ass crime queenpins caught in the Jean-Claude Van God-Damnedest take on The Most Dangerous Game since Hard Target, but with no bad accents.” —Thomas Pluck, author of Bad Boy Boogie and Blade of Dishonor
“Bounty hunters, a Monkey Man and Zombie Bill, explosions, sharp violence and even laughs. Kolakowski brings the goods with this one!” —Dave White, Shamus Award-nominated author of the Jackson Donne series
“A bounty hunter, his underworld criminal sister, and a dead body stuffed in a gun safe. What could possibly go wrong? In Boise Longpig Hunting Club, Nick Kolakowski unleashes a sordid and delightfully twisted tale of double crosses, revenge, and good ol’ redneck justice. Like the bastard child of Joe Lansdale and James Lee Burke, this one is well worth the sleepless night you’ll spend captivated.” —Joe Clifford, author of the Jay Porter thriller series and The One That Got Away
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This intensely suspenseful Noir crime fiction is non-stop action. It’s jam-packed with so many colorful, multidimensional characters, you’ll be drawn right into the storyline, experiencing every threat with Jake. The Boise setting is awe-inspiring, making me see every detail, as if I were there. Definitely a 5-star read that I hope has a sequel.
Received a free ARC copy from Down & Out Books for my honest review.
What a deceiving cover , along with the title, had no clue what to expect and knew it had to be good with it being published by Down & Out books. This was my first read from author Nick Kolakowski, found this one to be not only engrossing but additive even, definitely will read more of his books and made me think of Elmore Leonard with his writing.
Been a while since I read a book that just grab my undivided attention, 2 hrs found myself 36% in, in love with Frankie Halligan and also liked her bounty hunter brother Jake. She isn’t even the lead character, yet she makes Boise Longpig Hunting Club so good and it wouldn’t work without her.
My first reaction was to be disappointed when Jake, Frankie and Janine were captured getting the phone, but I got into the way Nick wrote and ultimate feel he pushed the easy button with the ending.
Your talking about a weapons dealer, who earlier in the book, took out a badass wannabe with a rocket launcher. It’s so not plausible, dumb even that Varney would deactivate the ankle bands, then in the end be carrying them verse leaving them were they hid them and basically killed the story for me.
Just thought it would have been better for them to take out each member one at a time with Frankie’s superior arsenal and use her secret weapon being Monkey Man. Then as they go up the food chain of who they hunt down, it’s not till they get to Baker and Varney that they realize or discover who they’ve been killing was the Boise Longpig Hunting Club.
Don’t get me wrong, I still hope that Nick Kolakowski will write some more about Jake and Frankie Halligan and it’s still worth it to read Boise Longpig Hunt Club.
This could be called a family story, one that touches all the elements of a shaky marriage, a child, parents, a sibling, etc. Set in Idaho, perhaps one of the last frontiers in the United States, it’s wild in more than geography and reputed home to isolated supremacists. The book’s protagonists, a vet of US-Iraq operations and his ACD wife are bounty hunters, a legitimate business that attracts all the wrong kind of attention. A lawless sister is an arms dealer with a posse that knows how to use the LAW [Light Antitank Weapon]. The action is gritty and addictive with a pace that’ll have you binging late into your bedtime reading. This tale culminates with the reader learning the true meaning of “Longpig” and a scenario much like the 1994 Rutger Hauer movie “Surviving the Game.” Don’t miss this savage cat-and-mouse game.