Dillo

“Like the roadside, half-pulped armadillo of the novel’s title, Dillo by Max Sheridan offers readers a captivatingly black and offbeat perspective on flawed people and nasty things: ‘That poor sonofabitch had either dragged itself to safety or been thrown like a hubcap because it was sitting there by the roadside with half its body missing, staring out at us like a fat man in an easy chair.’ At some point in their lives, everybody in Dillo has been tossed to the curb or run over by a bus, and Sheridan’s action-filled, father-son road trip is that much grittier and truthful for its hard-leather characters. A wicked new voice in crime and noir. A story that pulls you deep into the thorns. Writing that sings.”

—Jack Getze, fiction editor Spinetingler Magazine

“The elements are all here: A memorable cast of characters wherein even the minor actors are given weight, a compelling and original road story, the precise amount of description to keep that southwestern sun bearing down on your shoulders at all times, and a fluid prose that allows the reader to turn the pages with the ease of an El Camino cruising across a battered American highway.”

—Alec Cizak, author of Down on the Street

“A fresh voice taking on uncharted portions of the American literary landscape. Unique, funny, and wholly Max Sheridan’s.”

—Tom Pitts, author of American Static