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Speed Trap by Joey Ledford
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Joey Ledford
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Enraged about corruption in a small town near the coast, the governor of 1959 Georgia has had enough. Cops in Astoria are pulling over scores of Florida-bound tourists and writing tickets, demanding unreasonable on-the-spot cash payments. Travelers are also being drawn into impossible-to-win dice games in roadside stores by hucksters who scam away their vacation savings and beat them senseless if they can't pay. Astoria is also infamous for cat houses offering pleasures of the flesh. Governor Buford Dunlap puts up billboards to warn out-of-state drivers, and sends state troopers to guard them from locals who would otherwise tear them down.
One trooper, Cal Bocock, is pulled away from guard duty late one night and taken to a mysterious murder scene by a young man terrified of Astoria's evil cops, who apparently break more laws than they enforce. Bocock, just 26, is a second-generation cop and a Korean War hero. He is single, sandy-haired, attractive and quietly ambitious: investigating a murder is clearly much better duty than guarding a billboard. Bocock's initiative prompts the governor to promote him to special investigator assigned to end the lifelong rule of Astoria's strongman ruler, Earl "Boss" Griffin. Bocock is ordered to live among the locals, and his new home in a trailer park is ground zero for Astoria's collection of well-drawn, fascinating characters. Bocock's life becomes good cop versus a cadre of bad cops, and he is tested each and every day not only to ferret out the wrongdoers, but to stay alive.
— Speed Trap by Joey Ledford
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