The New Ride in Town

War Veteran. Used car dealer. Occasional lover of beautiful women. Wanna be amnesiac.

Cramden Cooper is back on the street after serving time for fighting over his own little grid coordinate of the war with more enthusiasm than the Top Brass thought was appropriate.

Now that he’s out, he's running a predatory used car lot in the seediest part of Denver to exact revenge on a society that’s turned its back on him. All he has left are a few broken men and the woman who refuses to give up on him, Kate Killingsworth. But, he’s convinced that the only thing he has to look forward to is a fiery head-on collision with the police, that is, if Kate's West Highland Terrier doesn't kill him first. But, he's okay with all that, as long as he doesn’t have to spend time confronting his difficult past.

All that changes when a mysterious woman appears on his doorstep with a valuable automobile, and soon after, Kate stumbles over a murder. Neither is what it seems, and Cramden finds himself being tested in ways that will either destroy him, or amplify his unique talent for destruction.