Uncle Dust

You can't outrun who you are.Dustin robs banks, drinks hard, and lives by his own code of loyalty in a world that has none. When he moves in with his girlfriend Theresa, the hardened thief finds himself playing house and hoping that a man like him could build something like a family.To keep the cash flowing, Dust takes a job collecting gambling debts for a local gangster, all while feeding his addiction to risk, booze, and an affair on the side. The more he tries to balance love and his profession, the more the scales tip toward disaster.With enemies circling and the law closing in, Dust has to decide what freedom really means to him... and what he's willing to burn to keep it.Gritty yet tender, Rob Pierce's UNCLE DUST is a razor-sharp noir thriller.'Rob Pierce is one of the more imaginative literary voices in our new emerging era of noir.' - James Grady, author of Six Days of the Condor and Shadows on Sidewalk

Vollmer grew up on the streets. He learned early that the only way through is to be harder, meaner, and quicker to pull the trigger than anyone else.Now he's been hired to track down Dust-a thief who made a bad decision-and bring back what was stolen. Collateral damage is expected.Vollmer is trailed by ghosts of his past. He's killed people close to him before, but how far is he willing to go to get the job done this time?A bullet-drenched tale of betrayal and revenge, WITH THE RIGHT ENEMIES is the second book in the Uncle Dust series by Rob Pierce.