Mad Dogs

Mad Dogsby Brian HodgeFrom Brian Hodge, the author of the highly acclaimed Wild Horses, comes hislong-awaited second crime novel, which once again finds him careening atwhiplash speeds between black humor and the pounding heart of darkness.Actor Jamey Sheppard may not be starving, but he's definitely struggling.His career has been one piddling role after another with names like RadicalDude #3. Still, as he's road-tripping from Los Angeles to Arizona to reunitewith his fiancée for their wedding, the future looks brighter than gold.Until a liquid lunch deputy turns the best day in his life into the worst.But Jamey's no criminal. He's only played one on TV.From the moment he's mistaken for Duncan MacGregor, the real-life renegadehe's just portrayed in a re-enactment segment on American Fugitives, Jamey'slife can never be the same. And so begins his sun-scorched odyssey throughovernight media saturation celebrity and the national fascination withoutlaws.In his hideaway, Duncan MacGregor is watching, too. And he just has to meetthe guy who relived his own worst moment in front of a nationwide audience.Within days, in a twist that even American Fugitives couldn't have seencoming, their fates are intertwined, as they ricochet down a road filledwith the world's dumbest bounty hunters, Hollywood deal-makers and wannabes,cops on both sides of the law, a metal-plated ex-con with a prehistoricoutlook on life, an impromptu right-wing death squad, a merciless Jay Leno,and the most dangerous people of all when it comes to grudges and on the run could be the best career move Jamey's ever made ... if hecan just live long enough to sign on the dotted line.