Swamp Walloper

by Jack Tunney

Patrick 'Felony' Flynn is back! And this time he's in way over his head ...

New Orleans, 1956 ... When the battered body of boxer Marcus de Trod turns up on the edge of the Bayou Sauvage outside New Orleans with the words ‘Get Felony Flynn LAPD’ tattooed in his armpits, Hat Squad detective, Patrick Felony Flynn, knows he is in for the fight of his life.

Far from the hardboiled streets of Los Angeles, Flynn and his partner, Tombstone Jones, are on a two-fisted rampage to find a killer. But hiding in the swamp, deep inside the walls of the Bayou Sauvage Federal Penitentiary, the killer patiently waits to crush his prey with razor sharp teeth and deadly jaws.

After taking down gangster Mickey Cohen’s championship prospect Solomon Kane in “Felony Fists,” Patrick Flynn triumphantly returns in “Swamp Walloper,” facing an even more dangerous foe – a killer fueled by voodoo and revenge ...

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Genres: Crime

121 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 24, 2013

About the author

Jack Tunney is the unifying pen name for authors of the FIGHT CARD series - created by Mel Odom and Paul Bishop. Up-and-coming new authors, such as Eric Beetner, David Foster, Kevin Michaels, and Heath Lowrance have all penned entries in the series alongside more established names in the field such as Wayne D. Dundee, Bishop, and Odom.

The books in the Fight Card series are 25,000 word novelettes, designed to be read in one or two sittings, and are inspired by the fight pulps of the '30s and '40s - such as Fight Stories Magazine - and Robert E. Howard's two-fisted boxing tales featuring Sailor Steve Costigan.

Each of the novellas is short, sharp and packs a punch.

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Reviews

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

Swamp Walloper is the sequel to Paul Bishop's Felony Fists, the saga of Patrick Felony Flynn, LAPD officer by day and boxer by night. Felony Fists was a Los Angeles story describing the rise of Chief Parker and his battles with boss Mickey Cohn. Swamp Walloper begins in Zlos Angeles with battles in the train yards and takes Flynn and his partner, Tombstone, to New Orleans, as a favor to investigate the death of another orphanage alum who was found in the bayou outside the local prison with Flynn's name tattooed in his armpits.

This particular story is more of a hardboiled detective tale than a boxing story and focuses on dirty dealings and corruption.

Of course, this being New Orleans, there's also a touch of voodoo which feels like something out of Howard's Conan books with Conan battling evil wizards in the Stygian jungles.
Make no mistake. This is a great read.

[Rory Costello · Rating 3 out of 5]

Plenty of fun, but -- as is the nature of most sequels -- a cut below the original. I also found it a little hard to suspend disbelief with the voodoo theme. It was something of an uneasy bedfellow with the meat-and-potatoes boxing action of the Fight Card series.

[Gef · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review coming soon.