It shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that the long-awaited SLEEP WITH THE FISHES sequel has the folks in Hellbender Eddy immersed in mayhem. Vying for membership in an exclusive hunting and fishing club, Sid turns enforcer when he’s retained to dissuade a rangy gang of local poachers. But between the bears, a good luck charm on the fritz, and Russ hiring a hit man to kill him, Sid finds the job a mite more dangerous than he thought. Of course, all Russ is trying to do is find success and the good life through the influential members of that same hunting and fishing club. He has no idea that the slicker “Rocky” who moved in next door is actually a TV sitcom actor Chris Rockwell, who’s shadowing Sid as inspiration for a movie part. Rocky’s plans go off the deep end, too, when he rescues small-town girl Beatrice from a staged canoe accident meant to impress Russ who was kissing Sid’s gal Jenny under a car hood while myopic looser Tommy rolls into town on a vendetta and The Bob’s take over the Five Star Diner with the signature dish of Pizza Pancakes. Just a little confused? Well so are they until the smash up derby and the subsequent funeral for a major character. No, not Reverend Jim – he lives to steal another day!

NOTE TO ALL YOU LOYAL READERS:
Dirt Nap is as yet unpublished, though by popular demand it was serialized here on the website in the Summer of 2004.  Hopefully, with the mass market release of SLEEP WITH THE FISHES in the fall of 2006, we will see DIRT NAP as part of the next contract with Bantam Dell - perhaps in 2007.