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Bailin'
Cole Haskins and Bunny Beaumont are crazy in love, which is sometimes good for their careers robbing banks, sometimes not. When even Cole’s lightning draw and Bunny’s steel-nerved driving doesn’t keep them from blowing a big heist in south Texas and have to split to Mexico to hide and heal up, they end up losing money on an armored car robbery that wrecks a town, but luck into an embezzler about to be killed by a bounty hunter. They save him—for a stiff price—but by the time they smuggle him back into the USA on the flying chopper built by two nutso biker/smugglers, things are getting way too loose. They end up in a hostage hole-up, then get chased to a cliff by the law like Thelma and Louise. And through all the hot-wheeling, lead-slingin’, and wheeler-dealin’ they never miss a chance to crack a joke or smooch each other silly.
A richly comic crime novel with a unique twist, it’s also a cock-eyed romance. You’re going to remember Bunny and Cole.
A richly comic crime novel with a unique twist, it’s also a cock-eyed romance. You’re going to remember Bunny and Cole.
166 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
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September 30, 2017
I tried reading the story but about 35 % of the way in I had had enough foul language and character hopping.
May 31, 2013
A very fun read, indeed!
Well, this was interesting. Welcome to old town Texas in the 21st century. I think that’s a good description. I’ll say this much, Mr. Robinson does an excellent job describing the old towns of the South. His command of the English language of Texans, is highly applauded. Yep, we really do talk like that. You’ll feel you’re there with each misadventure of our two modern day, “Bonnie and Clyde.” Meet Cole and Bunny. Just two kids trying to make a fast buck.
The book opens with a pulse pounding bank robbery gone wrong, and I mean seriously wrong. The scene reminds one of the “Shoot out at the OK Corral.” It’s wild and it’s wooly. Poor Cole doesn’t realize the absconded money has a die packet in it. Whoops. Despite being filled full of lead, his darling Bunny pulls him out of the fire and wings them off to safety. From this point on, their adventures are a reminder of “Road Runner versus Wiley Coyote.” Why? Because some of the action scenes are a bit over the top. I forgot how many injuries Cole endures, but in each case, he wouldn’t have survived without his surplus items from ACME Inc.
Now, no story would be complete without some resident stooges. Meet Bogart and Flathead. These two guys couldn’t pour s..t out of their boots without written directions. They’re that stupid. They have more schemes on how to make money than the law allows. Only problem, they’re great ideas flounder when they start talking to each other. They are the atypical, “Laurel and Hardy” tandem. What idiots. Their endeavors will have you splitting a rib.
I did have a few issues. At times, the punch line was followed with another punch line. As already mentioned, the injuries the characters are inflicted with, would have killed them over and over and over. The ending.
Who will like this? Easy. If you are a Western, Bonnie and Clyde junkie, with a touch of slapstick, you’re going to thoroughly enjoy the book.
A solid 4 stars.
Well, this was interesting. Welcome to old town Texas in the 21st century. I think that’s a good description. I’ll say this much, Mr. Robinson does an excellent job describing the old towns of the South. His command of the English language of Texans, is highly applauded. Yep, we really do talk like that. You’ll feel you’re there with each misadventure of our two modern day, “Bonnie and Clyde.” Meet Cole and Bunny. Just two kids trying to make a fast buck.
The book opens with a pulse pounding bank robbery gone wrong, and I mean seriously wrong. The scene reminds one of the “Shoot out at the OK Corral.” It’s wild and it’s wooly. Poor Cole doesn’t realize the absconded money has a die packet in it. Whoops. Despite being filled full of lead, his darling Bunny pulls him out of the fire and wings them off to safety. From this point on, their adventures are a reminder of “Road Runner versus Wiley Coyote.” Why? Because some of the action scenes are a bit over the top. I forgot how many injuries Cole endures, but in each case, he wouldn’t have survived without his surplus items from ACME Inc.
Now, no story would be complete without some resident stooges. Meet Bogart and Flathead. These two guys couldn’t pour s..t out of their boots without written directions. They’re that stupid. They have more schemes on how to make money than the law allows. Only problem, they’re great ideas flounder when they start talking to each other. They are the atypical, “Laurel and Hardy” tandem. What idiots. Their endeavors will have you splitting a rib.
I did have a few issues. At times, the punch line was followed with another punch line. As already mentioned, the injuries the characters are inflicted with, would have killed them over and over and over. The ending.
Who will like this? Easy. If you are a Western, Bonnie and Clyde junkie, with a touch of slapstick, you’re going to thoroughly enjoy the book.
A solid 4 stars.
March 1, 2013
Set in what I’ve come to recognise as the classic Linton Robinson territory of the U.S.-Mexican Border, Bailin’ is another fast-paced, action-packed novel that takes the reader on an awesome journey with some of the most likeable, vivid characters you can imagine.
Obviously, the cover of this novel gives it away that there’s more then a little romance amid the covers, which would be between our smooching, sassy anti-hero lovebirds, Cole Haskins and Beatrice ‘Bunny’ Beaumont; a couple of fun loving’ young felons, trying to find their slice of the good life.
Cole and Bunny are living day to day, robbing banks and staying out of the way of the law, when they happen to stumble across Alvin Hunstetter, a bureaucratic little nobody who’s rapidly become a somebody after trying to embezzle six-million dollars from the city funds. Tracked by a vicious mercenary and a straight talking bounty hunter, Hunstetter has become the prize everybody wants to claim, not to mention a serial gunshot wound victim.
Cole and Bunny could well be Hunstetter’s last hope of getting out of this one alive… but not without a little help from two seemingly clueless bikers, Bogie and Flattop, who are married to their beloved choppers and have an amusing hate-love-hate relationship with each other.
With a simple, yet effective plot providing a sturdy foundation for this caper it won’t take many pages before you too are rooting for the good guys, who, under any other circumstances would most definitely be the bad guys. With car chases, gun fights and for the romantics out there, a good old fashioned love story, Linton Robinson has most definitely done it again.
Obviously, the cover of this novel gives it away that there’s more then a little romance amid the covers, which would be between our smooching, sassy anti-hero lovebirds, Cole Haskins and Beatrice ‘Bunny’ Beaumont; a couple of fun loving’ young felons, trying to find their slice of the good life.
Cole and Bunny are living day to day, robbing banks and staying out of the way of the law, when they happen to stumble across Alvin Hunstetter, a bureaucratic little nobody who’s rapidly become a somebody after trying to embezzle six-million dollars from the city funds. Tracked by a vicious mercenary and a straight talking bounty hunter, Hunstetter has become the prize everybody wants to claim, not to mention a serial gunshot wound victim.
Cole and Bunny could well be Hunstetter’s last hope of getting out of this one alive… but not without a little help from two seemingly clueless bikers, Bogie and Flattop, who are married to their beloved choppers and have an amusing hate-love-hate relationship with each other.
With a simple, yet effective plot providing a sturdy foundation for this caper it won’t take many pages before you too are rooting for the good guys, who, under any other circumstances would most definitely be the bad guys. With car chases, gun fights and for the romantics out there, a good old fashioned love story, Linton Robinson has most definitely done it again.
June 14, 2013
This is definitely a unique story with apparently lots of humour well I guess I have a lousy sense of it. I was not able to grasp the essence of the story, where it was leading to and simply thought it was due to poor writing (too much slang) and a lousy plot, well apparently I am totally out in the left field since many have expressed the opposite. This Bonny and Clyde à la 21st century was not able to tickle my fancy in the first few pages and upheld my full attention subsequently, although I did manage with great patience to read it to the last page hoping everything will gel eventually, it never did. In retrospect, this romantic western crime comedy was without any doubt not meant for me I should have read between lines and paid more attention to the synopsis before tackling it.
Let me be fair to the writer, he is after all a professional writer with a fertile imagination and great capability to simulate particular accents, those who can understand the nuance will most likely enjoy it. This book is a crime lite set in Texas and features lovebirds doing just fine shooting up South Texas and making hair-rising getaway and eventually getting over their head with real robbers and crooked politicians, mixed up with an embezzler nerd, a grizzled bounty hunter, wild bikers, etc. This is a caper like you never read before narrated in a southern drawl with plenty of local slang. It has unique twists along the way and cock-eyed romance to entertain. Some may find the writing to be rich and spunky and have amazing characterization unfortunately I fail to see this….. Well my lost.
Let me be fair to the writer, he is after all a professional writer with a fertile imagination and great capability to simulate particular accents, those who can understand the nuance will most likely enjoy it. This book is a crime lite set in Texas and features lovebirds doing just fine shooting up South Texas and making hair-rising getaway and eventually getting over their head with real robbers and crooked politicians, mixed up with an embezzler nerd, a grizzled bounty hunter, wild bikers, etc. This is a caper like you never read before narrated in a southern drawl with plenty of local slang. It has unique twists along the way and cock-eyed romance to entertain. Some may find the writing to be rich and spunky and have amazing characterization unfortunately I fail to see this….. Well my lost.
June 19, 2013
Bailin' got off to a great start -- a busted bank robbery and a small plane crashing into a hi-rise after its occupants parachute out -- but it fell off toward the end, which also suffered from two or three typos that slipped in under the spell checker.
The book had a breezy tone and a tight sentence structure. It was a bit heavy with adjectives and adverbs, but that somehow seemed to work. The book is short, and there are a lot of characters, so none of them gets fleshed out fully, not even the Bonnie and Clyde couple on the cover.
I was left wondering at times what had just happened. (Like how did the accountant resurface after Bogie dumped him into the lake?)
There are essentially three stories here that converge into one:
1. Boy and girl, deeply in love and crime, search for their big break (their botched robbery opens the book)
2. City accountant embezzles six million, skips bond, and heads for Mexico with two (?) bounty hunters on his trail
3. Biker boys who steal a small plane then make their own flying machines out of military surplus parts they get God knows where
The book ends with the somewhat mysterious convergence of all three groups. What happens is a bit of a blur, but I think it's something like this:
a. Cole and Bunny (the B & C couple) get a significant slice of the six million and are seen smartly dressed and cruising down to the Panama Canal at the end of the story.
b. The bikers get a bag of money
c. the accountant strikes a deal with the bounty hunter and they all get rich
I feel like there's a lot of potential here, but it just wasn't quite finished. There's a lot to like here, though.
The book had a breezy tone and a tight sentence structure. It was a bit heavy with adjectives and adverbs, but that somehow seemed to work. The book is short, and there are a lot of characters, so none of them gets fleshed out fully, not even the Bonnie and Clyde couple on the cover.
I was left wondering at times what had just happened. (Like how did the accountant resurface after Bogie dumped him into the lake?)
There are essentially three stories here that converge into one:
1. Boy and girl, deeply in love and crime, search for their big break (their botched robbery opens the book)
2. City accountant embezzles six million, skips bond, and heads for Mexico with two (?) bounty hunters on his trail
3. Biker boys who steal a small plane then make their own flying machines out of military surplus parts they get God knows where
The book ends with the somewhat mysterious convergence of all three groups. What happens is a bit of a blur, but I think it's something like this:
a. Cole and Bunny (the B & C couple) get a significant slice of the six million and are seen smartly dressed and cruising down to the Panama Canal at the end of the story.
b. The bikers get a bag of money
c. the accountant strikes a deal with the bounty hunter and they all get rich
I feel like there's a lot of potential here, but it just wasn't quite finished. There's a lot to like here, though.
November 2, 2015
Bailin' was really funny. How funny, you ask? I was sitting in the dentist chair, reading this on my Kindle while waiting for Lady Pain, er, the hygienist to come in and get to work, and laughing out loud instead of crying like I usually do. (I have very sensitive teeth. Really.)
So, we have Cole Haskins, a smooth-talking modern-day gunslinger who would rather live an easy life of holding up banks and armored cars than get a, you know, JOB, and his lover/getaway driver, former truck stop princess Bunny Beaumont, the brains in the outfit. Then we have the world's most inept drug smugglers, two-man motorcycle gang Flathead and Bogart (there are no brains in this outfit, except that Bogart has kind of an idiot savant genius for cobbling together dangerously fast vehicles that are unsafe at any speed, and Flathead at least has the self-preservation instinct to want to stay off of them). Then there's Alvin Hunstetter, the nervously larcenous city treasurer who makes off with the stadium fund and skips bail. Add in a good, honest bounty hunter (when the most upstanding citizen in the story is a bounty hunter, that kind of gives you an idea of what you're dealing with here), an insanely homicidal ninja bounty hunter, and some crooked city officials, throw them all together in an action-packed chase along the Texas-Mexico border, top off with a slyly humorous narrative voice, and you've got a wildly entertaining read that's impossible to put down.
So, we have Cole Haskins, a smooth-talking modern-day gunslinger who would rather live an easy life of holding up banks and armored cars than get a, you know, JOB, and his lover/getaway driver, former truck stop princess Bunny Beaumont, the brains in the outfit. Then we have the world's most inept drug smugglers, two-man motorcycle gang Flathead and Bogart (there are no brains in this outfit, except that Bogart has kind of an idiot savant genius for cobbling together dangerously fast vehicles that are unsafe at any speed, and Flathead at least has the self-preservation instinct to want to stay off of them). Then there's Alvin Hunstetter, the nervously larcenous city treasurer who makes off with the stadium fund and skips bail. Add in a good, honest bounty hunter (when the most upstanding citizen in the story is a bounty hunter, that kind of gives you an idea of what you're dealing with here), an insanely homicidal ninja bounty hunter, and some crooked city officials, throw them all together in an action-packed chase along the Texas-Mexico border, top off with a slyly humorous narrative voice, and you've got a wildly entertaining read that's impossible to put down.
March 6, 2013
Ever read a book that, by page two you know you’ve got a good one? This Is that book! Cole Haskins is in the process of politely robbing a bank – collecting money, watches, rings…you have it, Cole gets it. There is a small issue with the get away car. His beloved Bunny is a bit late picking him up. Late enough that Cole is winged a few times, has blown up the dye on the money, drops a lot of said money in the street. You get the picture.
Cole and Bunny have been together for awhile. Their trusty friends Bogart and Flathead (aptly named) have possibly a gnat’s brain between them with Flathead being the smart one. Bikers to the3 core and always on the lookout for a score; they help save friends through interesting inventions of Bogart’s and assist a wanna-be embezzler out of town.
About the embezzler……well, you’ll find out because you will NOT be able to resist buying this one. What a wonderful book, laughed my self silly!
Cole and Bunny have been together for awhile. Their trusty friends Bogart and Flathead (aptly named) have possibly a gnat’s brain between them with Flathead being the smart one. Bikers to the3 core and always on the lookout for a score; they help save friends through interesting inventions of Bogart’s and assist a wanna-be embezzler out of town.
About the embezzler……well, you’ll find out because you will NOT be able to resist buying this one. What a wonderful book, laughed my self silly!
December 21, 2013
Linton Robinson’s Bailin’ is an adventurous novel filled with raw realism from the seedy side of life. We are introduced to some unusual, colorful characters. The novel follows the lives of several characters until they cross paths and climax in a surprising plot twist.
Cole and Bunny are the ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ of the story. Flathead and Bogart are the comic buffoons who somehow by sheer luck survive some of their stupidest decisions. Oakley, the bounty hunter, chases after Alvin, a white collar criminal who robbed the city. And then there is a loose hitman, March, pursuing both Alvin and Oakley. There are many pleasant twists and turns in this story.
I recommend this wild novel; it’ll keep you on a non-stop road adventure.
Cole and Bunny are the ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ of the story. Flathead and Bogart are the comic buffoons who somehow by sheer luck survive some of their stupidest decisions. Oakley, the bounty hunter, chases after Alvin, a white collar criminal who robbed the city. And then there is a loose hitman, March, pursuing both Alvin and Oakley. There are many pleasant twists and turns in this story.
I recommend this wild novel; it’ll keep you on a non-stop road adventure.
March 1, 2013
Nice fast-moving noir with a western flavor, little bit like a Tex-Mex version of a Donald Westlake caper book with a couple of twists of Hiassen citrus, Bailin' advances inexorably toward a bad end as the lovestruck duo move through their exchanges with all of the crazed panache of a pair of rabid Gila monsters. Filled with belly laughs, giggles and occasional snickers, Bailin satisfies.
Though they only half-bright, Cole and Bunny manage to light up the pages with scene after scene of richly-detailed antics suitable for reading with a bowl of chili and a margarita at your side. I'm all thumbs, so ten thumbs up.
Though they only half-bright, Cole and Bunny manage to light up the pages with scene after scene of richly-detailed antics suitable for reading with a bowl of chili and a margarita at your side. I'm all thumbs, so ten thumbs up.
February 2, 2014
I thoroughly enjoyed this Western Humor novel. I'm not much for Westerns, but this was so much fun to read.
I love stories with good plots and great characters, and this was one of those reads.
The style that the story was written in was quite whimsical and made me chuckle at many lines.
Just a fun book that I know I'll read more than once.
I love stories with good plots and great characters, and this was one of those reads.
The style that the story was written in was quite whimsical and made me chuckle at many lines.
Just a fun book that I know I'll read more than once.
April 17, 2013
I feel kinda bad because I didn't like this story as much as most but I just couldn't get into it and found myself skipping and skimming. The characters were funny to a certain extent but it just wasn't for me.
March 12, 2013
Kind of Tarentino styled story with quirky people and happenings. Keeps you wanting to read on to see what is happening next!
April 16, 2017
Bailin’ breaks every writing rule there is, but somehow, Linton Robinson makes it work. Labeled a “Comedic Crime Romance” on the cover, this book is a fast paced crime story, filled with a cast of bungling criminals, who somehow always manage to come out ahead, in spite of the precarious situations they end up in.
I read it twice, the second time, aloud. It is filled with big words, lots of adverbs and adjectives, alliteration and empurpled prose, but the story line is so much fun, all of that can be forgiven. In fact, Robinson’s style helps to set the tone in this comedic caper and make the whole thing work.
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I read it twice, the second time, aloud. It is filled with big words, lots of adverbs and adjectives, alliteration and empurpled prose, but the story line is so much fun, all of that can be forgiven. In fact, Robinson’s style helps to set the tone in this comedic caper and make the whole thing work.
Read my full review on my blog: https://kayelynnebooth.wordpress.com/...
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