Soal Man

Soal Man

by Murphy Edwards

 

The justice system in the city of Sachter is broken.  Teenage punks with big guns, small minds, and no ambition roam about the darkest neighborhoods in search of prey.  They fuel their anger with codeine-soaked joints and cheap liquor and finance their habits through theft, extortion, arson, and murder. Enter Romeo Soal, a loner who has vowed to give his ravaged city a jump-start.  Working just outside the crumbling edges of the legal system, Soal takes on child molesters, dope dealers, deadbeat dads, and repeat offenders who have slithered through the cracks in the courthouse steps.  Soal does his best to help those in need, but when P. Anderton Hillis, a wealthy businessman, asks him to murder his wife, Soal flatly refuses.  Hillis is not accustomed to being told “no,” and is determined to do anything to get his way, including kidnapping Soal’s best friend, Nick Finch.  While trying to rescue Finch, Soal must endure beatings, avoid police, and stop an arsonist who has turned pyromania into an art form, all while struggling with his infatuation for Hillis’ personal secretary.


Cover art/design by John Stanton

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Indiana Crime Review 2014

edited by:
Murphy Edwards
James Ward Kirk

Contents:

Pulp City by Roger Cowin

Polite Society by Alec Cizak
The Surrogate by Dona Fox
Priority Delivery by Michael McGlade
Gone by Flo Stanton
Current Events by Flo Stanton
This Is the way the World Ends by Flo Stanton
Whiskey Bait by Guy Burtenshaw
Honesty’s No Policy by Nienke Pool
Old Habits by D. Jonathan Brudie
The Cosa Nostra and the Hit Man by James Park
The Samaritan by Brian Rosenberger
A Less-Than-Ordinary Crime by Trevor Boelter
Blue Angels by Lee Forsythe
Where’s Johnny? By Joseph Rubas
Belle by Charie D. La Marr
Damen Cuddles by Sigrid Lensink
Cover art and design by John Stanton

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Indiana Crime Review 2013

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Indiana Crime Review 2013

Edited by James Ward Kirk and Murphy Edwards
Cover design by Mike Jansen
Illustrations by John D. Stanton

With stories by:
Matt Cowan
S. M. Harding
William Cook
Brent Abell
Brian Rosenberger
Flo Stanton
Murphy Edwards
David S. Pointer
David Frazier
Ronald J. Friedman
Edward "Lefty" Lee
William J. Fedigan
David Beck
Lee Forsythe
Jimmy Pudge
Greg McWhorter
Tony Wilson
Roger Cowin