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"GREYHOUND RACING IS ONLY PRETTY ON THE TRACK. What you don't see until you read this book: the kennels, the dogmen, the breeding farms. Coleman Legget, Animal Control officer (aka dog catcher), knows the streets of Palm County: corrupt, fast, and unforgiving. A petty criminal himself, Legget, as he's called by his friends, learns what real crime is all about. Enter Dr. Fielding, a prestigious, local veterinarian who works with Animal Control. To Legget, Dr. Fielding performs medical miracles with an intuitive old boyA"" style many Palm County luminaries admire. But when Legget discovers Dr. Fielding is at the heart of a foul greyhound breeding operation, he must decide where his loyalties and future belong. Dog Catcher takes you on a realistic romp through a countrified Florida landscape of trailer parks and strawberry farms, dog kennels and animal hospitals. This is the gritty Southern noir of Central Florida and greyhound racing."

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Erich R. Sysak, one of Florida's most talented young writers, gets there first with a novel about greyhound racing. -- Sterling Watson (author of Sweet Dream Baby) The best fiction I've read this year. -- Lifestyle magazine (September 2005) With Dog Catcher [Sysak's] off to an excellent start of what I'm convinced will be an important literary career. -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler

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Erich R. Sysak grew up in Florida and New Orleans, but now lives in the northeast of Thailand. He works a small mango farm, reads and writes crime novels and teaches. His stories have been published in anthologies by Monsoon Books and have appeared in Oxford Magazine, storySouth, 42 Opus, Ducts and Pindeldyboz. He has written two crime novels: Dog Catcher and Stage IV, published by Monsoon Books.

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