TAMPA, Fla. - s4story -- Down & Out Books is pleased to announce that TWO IN THE HEAD, a crime novel by Eric Beetner, has been published on January 18, 2021 in trade paperback and ebook formats.

About TWO IN THE HEAD …

Samantha Whelan is a DEA agent, and not always a straight and narrow one. She's been taking bribes and doing favors for Calder and Rizzo—twin brothers and big players in narco traffic in southern California—for years. She turned down a deal that night, a deal to make her millions, but it meant killing her fiancé, an assistant district attorney building a case against Calder and Rizzo. And it meant betraying her DEA brethren more deeply than she had so far. It was too much. So Calder and Rizzo tried to blow her up.

What happened then…she split. Samantha became Samantha and Sam. Two halves of the same person. The good side and the bad side. The two opposing forces living within her for so long were now free to fight it out to see who will win control.

So begins a nightmarish rocket ride for Samantha to save her life and the lives of everyone she holds dear before Sam, her bad half, can burn it to the ground.

Advance praise for TWO IN THE HEAD …

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"Two In the Head is a straight shot between the eyes. A gangbusters plot, punch-drunk pace, and gut-punch action propel this black hearted thriller from Eric Beetner." —J. Todd Scott, author of The Far Empty and Lost River

Meet the author …

Eric Beetner has been described as "the James Brown of crime fiction—the hardest working man in noir." (Crime Fiction Lover) and "The 21st Century's answer to Jim Thompson" (LitReactor). He has written more than 20 novels including Rumrunners, Leadfoot, The Devil Doesn't Want Me, The Year I Died 7 Times and Criminal Economics. His award-winning short stories have appeared in over three dozen anthologies. He co-hosts the podcast Writer Types and the Noir at the Bar reading series in Los Angeles where he lives and works as a television editor.

In its eleventh year as an independent publisher of award-winning literary and crime fiction, Down & Out Books (https://downandoutbooks.com) is based in Tampa, Florida. For more information about the book, to request a review copy of the book, or to inquire about an interview with the author, contact info@downandoutbooks.com.