Hattie's Pink House
S.R. Doss
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About the book
At one time, Hattie’s was a famous Texas whorehouse, located just outside the Austin city limits, featuring a downstairs bar where politicians, newspapermen, Longhorn football coaches, university students, and other late-nighters could congregate for drinks and what not.
In this novel, Hattie’s has disappeared, but by way of flashback, it is remembered warmly by Phillip Dee, a paratrooper on his way to Germany on the eve of the Vietnam war, recalling how he had once been a reporter working his way through college, going without sleep, trying to keep his managing editor at bay.
Back in Austin to retrieve a car he had won and left there five years earlier, Dee recalls, among other things, how Hattie had helped him expose a crooked Texas congressman named Lomax, only to be fired then by his publisher, who was in league with Lomax, bribing him to obtain a TV station.
In Blood on the Risers, published in 2018, Dee encounters Lomax again in Germany and forces him from office, in a story, like Hattie’s Pink House, written to amuse and awaken one to life’s ironic twists and turns.
Also by S.R. Doss
Blood on the Risers
A Game of Inches
About the author
S.R. Doss has been a journalist, a paratrooper, and a professor of philosophy. A Game of Inches, the third novel in this series about Phillip Dee, is to be published next.
S.R. Doss
Purchase
About the book
At one time, Hattie’s was a famous Texas whorehouse, located just outside the Austin city limits, featuring a downstairs bar where politicians, newspapermen, Longhorn football coaches, university students, and other late-nighters could congregate for drinks and what not.
In this novel, Hattie’s has disappeared, but by way of flashback, it is remembered warmly by Phillip Dee, a paratrooper on his way to Germany on the eve of the Vietnam war, recalling how he had once been a reporter working his way through college, going without sleep, trying to keep his managing editor at bay.
Back in Austin to retrieve a car he had won and left there five years earlier, Dee recalls, among other things, how Hattie had helped him expose a crooked Texas congressman named Lomax, only to be fired then by his publisher, who was in league with Lomax, bribing him to obtain a TV station.
In Blood on the Risers, published in 2018, Dee encounters Lomax again in Germany and forces him from office, in a story, like Hattie’s Pink House, written to amuse and awaken one to life’s ironic twists and turns.
Also by S.R. Doss
Blood on the Risers
A Game of Inches
About the author
S.R. Doss has been a journalist, a paratrooper, and a professor of philosophy. A Game of Inches, the third novel in this series about Phillip Dee, is to be published next.
