Fightcard: Swamp Walloper

by Paul Bishop

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 ...

138 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 5, 2013

About the author

A thirty-five year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, Paul Bishop’s career has included a three year tour with his department's Anti-Terrorist Division and over twenty-five years’ experience in the investigation of sex crimes. His Special Assaults Units regularly produced the highest number of detective initiated arrests and highest crime clearance rates in the city. Twice honored as Detective of the Year, Paul also received the Quality and Productivity Commission Award from the City of Los Angeles.

As a nationally recognized interrogator, Paul starred as the lead interrogator and driving force behind the ABC TV reality show Take The Money And Run from producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Based on his expertise in deception detection, he currently conducts interrogation seminars for law enforcement, military, and human resource organizations.

Paul has published twelve novels, including five in his L.A.P.D. Detective Fey Croaker series. He has also written numerous scripts for episodic television and feature films. He currently writes and edits the Fight Card series of hardboiled boxing novel under the pseudonym Jack Tunney.

Reviews

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Swamp Walloper is the follow up to Felony Fists, the first book in the Fight Card series written by Paul Bishop. Fists saw L.A. cop, Patrick 'Felony' Flynn fighting on two fronts, first corruption on the streets, and then duking it out with one of gangster Mickey Cohen's minions – it was a fantastic, uplifting story with a knockout ending.

Walloper heads in a different direction, and sees Flynn plying his skills – as a cop first and as a fighter second – in the Crescent City, N'Awlins, and in the croc infested Bayou Sauvage. The villain of the piece is a crooked prison warden named Lucas Trask – a man steeped in dark voodoo rituals.

The tale is pure pulp, dripping with steamy New Orleans atmosphere, and featuring great characters – heroes you want cheer, and villains you want to hiss. The action packed climax will raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Like Felony Fists before it, Swamp Walloper punches above its weight and recommended to all fans of rapid-fire adventure.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m not a big fan of boxing in the real world, but I have become a big fan of the Fight Card series of novels launched by writers and pulp mavens Paul Bishop and Mel Odom. I especially enjoyed this one and another recent addition to the series that features Sherlock Holmes. Like other novels in the series, SWAMP WALLOPER is not about boxing per se, though it does feature some good fight scenes and boxing lore. In these novels, boxing and people who are good at it are more part of the foundation for bloody good pulp adventure yarns full of intriguing characters, two-fisted action and interesting settings. In SWAMP WALLOPER, the boxer is a Los Angeles cop who fights on the side. He gets drawn into a murder mystery in Louisiana that involves corrupt prison officials, illegal booze and voodoo. It’s a great, pulpy ride from LA to New Orleans to the bayous of Louisiana's backcountry.

[Gef · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review coming soon.