THE FIREPROOF MOTEL

About the Book

The Fireproof Motel in Bella Villa, Florida is home to twelve residents, federal undercover agent Mike Nolan among them. These denizens of the Fireproof Motel, a band of misfits, become embroiled with Edwin “Tiny” Harris a treacherous and psychopathic deputy sheriff when two of them witness him murder a fellow law officer. A host of the county’s worst villains are entangled with this corrupt cop. After discovering Agent Nolan is on his track, Tiny targets him as well. Meanwhile, gambling and drug mogul Rooster Babcock plots Tiny’s assassination. The story wraps up in a blazing double header climax.

About the Author

Arthur Barry spent four years at the University of Maine, leaving in his last semester after meditating on his lack of goals and finances. He’s been living and working in the workaday world ever since. After some thirty years in the cold but beautiful Pine Tree State, except for one winter in Austin, Texas, and three winters planting trees all over the South, he rolled to Florida with the rest of the nuts, where he lives, works, and writes today.