West Texas Justice: A Dark, Fast-Paced Ride Through Moral Chaos with Author Jim Nesbitt

About this episode

Teri M Brown interviews author Jim Nesbitt about his hard-boiled Texas crime thrillers featuring the character Ed Earl Burch.

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Jim Nesbitt, author of the book The Fatal Saving Grace. Award-winning author Jim Nesbitt has written five hard-boiled Texas crime thrillers that feature an indelible protagonist, Dallas private eye Ed Earl Burch, a cashiered homicide detective with bad knees, a wounded liver and an empty bank account. He’s smart, tough, profane and reckless: nobody’s hero—and nobody’s fool. Drawing on four decades as a journalist chasing hurricanes, presidential candidates, neo-Nazis, cops, crooks and cowboys, Nesbitt writes hard-hitting novels bristling with relentless action, pulse-racing plots, solid storylines and a colorful cast of characters. Gritty and remorseless, these stories take readers on a thrill ride that runs from the gleaming towers of Dallas and Houston to the stark desert mountains of the Texas Big Bend country and northern Mexico. This is hard-boiled detective fiction at its finest -- taut, tense and uncompromising sagas of revenge and redemption. With his pitch-perfect voice and keen eye for detail, Jim Nesbitt has created extraordinary tales centered on a main character like no other: the deeply flawed but wildly compelling…

People in this episode

Host: Teri M Brown

Guest: Jim Nesbitt

Topics covered

• crime thrillers
• detective fiction
• Texas
• moral chaos
• character study

Keywords

• crime
• thriller
• detective
• Texas
• Jim Nesbitt
• Ed Earl Burch
• moral chaos
• action
• narrative

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Fatal Saving Grace

Places: Texas, Dallas, Houston, Texas Big Bend, northern Mexico

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