Shoot the Woman First

Half a million dollars in drug proceeds, guarded by threemen with automatic weapons—for professional thief Crissa Stone and her team, stealing it was the easy part.But when the split goes awry in a blaze of gunfire, Crissa finds herself on therun with a duffel bag full of stolen cash, bound by a promise to deliver part ofthe take to the needy family of one of her slain partners.

In pursuit are the drug kingpin’s lethal lieutenants and aformer Detroit cop with his own deadly agenda. They think the money’s there forthe taking, for whoever finds her first. But Crissa doesn’t plan to give it upwithout a fight, even as her mission of mercy puts her and a young child inmortal danger, with forces on both sides of the law closing in. After all, adebt is a debt—even if it has to be paid in blood.

With Shoot the Woman First, Wallace Stroby deliversanother powerful, lyrical novel, his third featuring one of the most originalfemale characters in hard-boiled fiction.