RIDING SHOTGUN AND OTHER AMERICAN CRUELTIES is a unique collection of quirky, Tarantinoesque crime novellas, representing three very different sub-genres. In the first story, and "Easy-Peezy, and " a band of elderly Old West bank robbers return to their wicked ways robbing banks in the 1930s John Dillinger era. The second story, and "Riding Shotgun, and " is a bitter tale about a man pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to take up arms to protect those he loves. The third tale, and "$crilla, and " is an urban crime fantasy in which a fledgling hip-hop group kidnaps a record mogul in the hopes of finally making the kind of loot they've always dreamed of.