| Title: |
Rust on the Razor (#6 in the Tom and Scott series) |
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| Author: |
Mark Richard Zubro |
| Published by: |
St. Martin's Press, 1996 |
| ISBN: |
0-312-14404-0 [hardcover, 212 pages] |
Following weeks of tabloid rumors, Chicago baseball player
Scott Carpenter publicly discloses that he's gay. Instantly the subject
of sermons, Scott is besieged by the media, dropped from his endorsements,
and sidelined by an injury; life couldn't get worse for him and his lover,
high school teacher Tom Mason.
Until, of course, it does. In the midst of the uproar, Scott's father
has a heart attack, and Tom and Scott rush to rural Georgia to be by his
side. There they must deal not only with Scott's father's illness but with
a plague of bigotry and homophobia from the local officials, the townspeople,
and Scott's own siblings as well. Worse still, the town's sheriff is found
murdered in the back seat of their car, and local officials would like
nothing better than to pin the murder on Tom. Now Tom must uncover the
hostile town's secrets and find the real murderer if he ever hopes to leave
this small Georgia town alive.
