"One hot summer day, in his home in the southern Illinois coal country known as Little Egypt ... the self-appointed 'redneck detective' known as Slim gets a visit from a shady-looking pair who introduce themselves as Sheldon Cleaves and his son, A. Evan, looking to hire him to find a missing dog. As a miner with a reputation for 'bloodhounding'--tracking down missing persons the police can't find or won't--Slim is accustomed to looking for people, not pets ... But when he pulls the thread that leads to the Cleaveses' red-haired purebred pitbull--and then the dognapper is discovered with his head blown off--Slim finds himself plunged into a world of underground dogfights and white supremacists"--
"One hot summer day, in his home in the southern Illinois coal country known as Little Egypt ... the self-appointed 'redneck detective' known as Slim gets a visit from a shady-looking pair who introduce themselves as Sheldon Cleaves and his son, A. Evan, looking to hire him to find a missing dog. As a miner with a reputation for 'bloodhounding'--tracking down missing persons the police can't find or won't--Slim is accustomed to looking for people, not pets ... But when he pulls the thread that leads to the Cleaveses' red-haired purebred pitbull--and then the dognapper is discovered with his head blown off--Slim finds himself plunged into a world of underground dogfights and white supremacists"--
