The Bitch

Ex-con Jake Bishop is several years past his second stint in prison and has completely reformed. He’s married, expecting a child, and preparing to open his own hair salon. But then an old cellmate re-enters his life begging for a favor: to help him with a burglary. Forced by his code of ethics to perform the crime, Jake’s once idyllic life quickly plunges into an abyss. Jake soon realizes that there is only one way out of this purgatory . . . and it may rupture his soul beyond repair.

Les Edgerton is an ex-con who spent two years and change in prison on a 2-5 year sentence for burglary at the Pendleton Reformatory in Indiana, dubbed by then-President Lyndon Johnson as “the single worst prison in the U.S.” Since his release, he has earned a B.A. from Indiana University and a MFA in Writing from Vermont College. This will be the fifteenth book he has published. His career for many years as an outlaw and criminal lend an air of rare verisimilitude to his crime novels.