His latest edict is a death warrant (or a “greenlighting”) against Nate McClusky, his estranged wife, Avis, and his 11-year-old daughter, Polly. Harper begins five paragraphs describing Harrington’s reach from solitary confinement with the echoing incantatory phrases: “He had men for a mouth…He had men for blood…He had men for feet.He had men for eyes…”Īnd then, ”He had men for hands…Addresses were compiled.
Jordan Harper’s heart-pounding debut novel, She Rides Shotgun, opens with a chilling introduction to “Crazy Craig” Hollington, a lifer in solitary confinement in California’s Supermax Pelican State Prison, where he is held in a specially built cell “where the lights were on for twenty-four hours a day (and) he couldn’t own anything firmer than a Q-tip.”ĭespite his confinement Hollington still manages to run his white supremacist drug gang, Aryan Steel, issueing orders through a clandestine system of “kites,” coded messages on scraps of paper swung from cell to cell on strings.
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