Failure to Yield

by P.G. Sturges

Michael Connolly, Anna Quindlen, Elmore Leonard, and Peter James can’t all be wrong. All have lauded the work of p.g.sturges. Here’s his latest effort, Failure to Yield . Set in Los Angeles, on Thanksgiving Day, Hack Leonard, on the downside of his career in radio, initiates a conversation with the man leading police on a freeway car chase. Their impromptu interaction grows in popularity by the hour, becoming a worldwide sensation. Failure to Yield chronicles the chase and the various lives that cross paths during this social phenomenon. And Grandma’s parakeet is raised from the dead.

p.g.sturges makes his home in Portland, Oregon. An autodidact, he’s been a submarine sailor, a Christmas tree farmer, a metrologist, an author, and screenwriter, and a musician. As a songwriter, he is the only known connection between David Lee Roth and Barry Manilow. Scribner publishes his Shortcut Man Series, crime fiction. Barking Lion publishes LIFE.2 , literary fiction.

239 pages, Paperback

Published January 30, 2022

About the author

Preston G. Sturges. Jr. is an author and screenwriter born into a Hollywood family. He's the son of the famed Hollywood screenwriter and director, Preston Sturges, responsible for such classics as "Sullivan's Travels." He died when the author was just six years old but the two share a love of quirky characters and screwball plots. P.G. Sturges grew up amongst the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles. He spent time as a submarine sailor for the U.S. Navy, calibrating tools as a metrologist, also as a musician and a screenwriter before becoming a novelist at age 57.