Short money: a novel

Desperate for cash, small town cop Joe Crow takes a security job that could cost him his lifeJoe Crow celebrates his thirty-third birthday in his patrol car, watching for speeders and sniffing fat lines of cocaine.

A depressed cop with a faltering marriage, a rotten stomach, and an increasingly expensive drug habit, Crow is just looking for a drink and a poker game when he steps into Birdy's.

Instead, he meets a man who might be able to save his lifeor destroy it.He first notices Dr. Nelson Bellwether when the liposuction expert has a chair smashed over his head.

A surgeon with a big mouth, a gambler's personality, and some serious debt to the IRS, he's on his way to deep trouble, and he's going to bring Crow along for the ride.

Dr. Bellwether needs a bodyguard, and Crow is his man. Pretty soon, this small town cop will wish he had a bodyguard of his own.