Lethal Injection

Jim Nisbet's cult classic Lethal Injection, one of the first Black Lizard Books originals, has been out of print in the United States for an unforgivably long time-but now it's back, and on audio.It's about as noir as you can get. In a bleak Texas prison, Franklin Royce, an alcoholic doctor, is given the odious task of administering inmate Bobby Mencken's last &quote;high.&quote; The young black man on the other end of the needle seems remarkably indifferent to his fate-but Royce is convinced that the convicted killer was innocent. When Royce's marriage crumbles, he takes off for Dallas to search for the real killer.Of Nisbet, Germany's Die Welt wrote, &quote;Neither Norman Mailer nor Truman Capote has in their writing been able to produce such an intensity as Nisbet has achieved.&quote; With sharp humor and a poet's ear for language, Nisbet has created a world that is assuredly bleak-but frighteningly real.