Publisher's Synopsis
FORT WORTH NIGHTS reprints all the short fiction featuring Cody, the private eye protagonist of New York Times best-selling author James Reasoner's first novel, the cult classic TEXAS WIND. Available for the first time in one place are the acclaimed stories "Dead in Friday," "The Elephant's Graveyard," "The Spanish Blade," "The Safest Place in the World," and "In the Blood." Plus, FORT WORTH NIGHTS marks the first publication anywhere of the first new Cody story in nearly 25 years, a 10,000 word novelette entitled "Assisted Dying." Over 50,000 words in collection. Ed Gorman calls Cody's first appearance TEXAS WIND "one of the finest private eye novels I've ever read . . . a virtually perfect utterance, a story of a man, an era, and a place." If you haven't made Cody's acquaintance yet, FORT WORTH NIGHTS is the perfect introduction.