Bitch Factor - Hardcover

Rogers, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553106597 ISBN 13: 9780553106596

Publisher: Bantam, 1998

Synopsis

The name may be Dixie, but she's no fainting Southern belle: Any bail jumper in Houston knows that Dixie Flannigan is a woman to be reckoned with. It's a dangerous job for a woman to do solo, but she's armed with her .45, a stun gun, a shiv in her boot, and the most important weapon of all...Bitch Factor.

After ten years in the Houston DA's office, watching the guilty get off on technicalities, Dixie Flannigan was hardened, worn-out, and ready for a more hands-on style of justice. So she left it all behind to become a bounty hunter. Now, free to bring in criminals with no holds barred, she's already a local legend in the jails and courtrooms for her combination of brains, cunning, and macho style. But she's about to discover that being tough as nails is harder than it looks.

When her old friend Belle Richards--"Texas's Hottest Defense Lawyer"--calls in a favor two nights before Christmas, Dixie has no intention of taking the job. If she doesn't show up for her family's Christmas dinner, she'll be in the doghouse again. Then Dixie finds out Belle's client is an accused child-killer who ran down an eleven-year-old girl during a drunk and claims not to remember it. Parker Dann looks guilty as hell to the jury, and Belle is sure Dann's going to jump bail to save himself ten-to-twenty in prison. Dixie tells herself she's taking the job to see that justice is served and Dann faces his punishment, but she's really out for some private revenge on the child predators of the world. But what she should have remembered--and what she's about to learn the hard way--is that Lady Justice herself can be a bitch.

Dixie tracks Dann to the wilds of North Dakota and has him safely cuffed and shackled in the back of her Mustang, when a massive Blue Norther blizzard hits. It will take every ounce of her Superbitch abilities to get them back to Texas in one piece, hopefully before Dixie's bitch facade cracks...and before she starts believing that Parker Dann--drunk, child-killer, and bail jumper--is innocent.

Hard-edged, riveting, relentlessly suspenseful, Bitch Factor marks the debut of a talented new writer, and one of the toughest, most appealing heroines to appear in a long time.

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Review:

It's not surprising that Dixie Flannigan comes across as 250 pounds of attitude stuffed into a 120-pound package. As a Texas prosecutor turned bounty hunter, Dixie has to intimidate a collection of much larger males into believing she's capable of doing them serious harm if they try to escape her clutches. In her debut thriller, Chris Rogers pushes just hard enough on Dixie's tough-talking image to make her believable, and then drops her into a story where her smartness and humanity become equally important. Transporting an escaped prisoner through a South Dakota snowstorm, Dixie slowly finds herself believing him when he insists that somebody else killed the 11-year-old girl he's accused of running over while drunk. We believe him, too: the wisecracking Dixie isn't the only soft touch in town.

From the Publisher:

"One of the year's most stellar debuts. The story is exciting, gripping the reader immediately and never letting go....Move over Stephanie Plum and make way for Dixie Flanagan, the new kid on the bounty hunter block!"
--Toby Bromberg, Romantic Times

"Snappy dialogue...memorable characters...pleasurable entertainment."
--Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0553106597
• ISBN 13: 9780553106596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304