{"id":4164,"date":"2019-12-18T21:40:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T02:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/?post_type=product&#038;p=4164"},"modified":"2020-01-10T21:02:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T02:02:05","slug":"zimbabwe-hustle","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/product\/zimbabwe-hustle\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Hustle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfc6 2019 BIBA\u2122 Action Winner!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If crime is like artwork, these two are finger painters.<\/p>\n<p>Big-game hunting guide Gabriel McCollough&#8217;s business just dried up. One of his clients killed a famously photogenic lion, creating an outcry around the world and driving the man into hiding. Now, not even the wealthiest hunter would dare to hire Gabriel to guide a hunt for fear of becoming a social pariah.<\/p>\n<p>McCollough&#8217;s nephew, a failed Hollywood stunt-car driver named Callum Bailey, spends his days dodging monkey dung and administering enemas to elephants at the Sacramento Zoo. Together, the two men develop a plan to reverse their ill luck and make their fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>For big-game hunters afraid of public scrutiny or those with no stomach for enduring the heat and insects of Africa, the two offer staged kill photos using Callum&#8217;s access to the zoo animals. With the help of a medley of tranquilizers and some creative photo editing, the hunters can brag to their friends about the game they bagged\u2014without ever firing a shot. It&#8217;s a brilliant plan.<\/p>\n<p>Until everything collapses. Or rather, an elephant collapses. On their first customer.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the men find themselves blackmailed by their client&#8217;s sex-addict widow and on the run from the police, Colombian drug dealers, Yakuza enforcers, and an arms dealer obsessed with owning the dead man&#8217;s exceedingly valuable Holland and Holland double rifle.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"six columns\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4166\" src=\"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nate-Granzow-300x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nate-Granzow-300x360.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nate-Granzow-150x180.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nate-Granzow-560x671.jpg 560w, https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nate-Granzow.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/div> <div class=\"six columns\">\n<h3>Nate Granzow<\/h3>\n<p>Author | Editor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Minnesotan outdoorsman, award-winning novelist, and editor, Nate Granzow likes the smell of gunpowder, the taste of gin, the sound of freedom, and the feel of leather-bound books. In addition to writing fiction, he&#8217;s worked as a magazine editor for a Fortune 500 publishing company and copy-editor for a military news network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/BIBA-Zimbabwe-Hustle-2019ff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4486 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/BIBA-Zimbabwe-Hustle-2019ff-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/BIBA-Zimbabwe-Hustle-2019ff.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/BIBA-Zimbabwe-Hustle-2019ff-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/BIBA-Zimbabwe-Hustle-2019ff-600x407.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/BIBA-Zimbabwe-Hustle-2019ff-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/BIBA-Zimbabwe-Hustle-2019ff-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/BIBA-Zimbabwe-Hustle-2019ff-938x636.jpg 938w, https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/BIBA-Zimbabwe-Hustle-2019ff-560x380.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfc6 2019 BIBA\u2122 Action Winner!&nbsp; If crime is like artwork, these two are finger painters. 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