Death Row: Hector Lassiter Makes His Last Stand
Submitted by Damon on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 16:04
Name: Hector Lassiter (Narrator of Craig McDonald’s novel HEAD GAMES)
What’s on the menu for your last supper?
Vodka (for its flammability)
Pall Mall cigarettes (spark source)
Well-done steak (something very tough to require some cutlery…we’re going for a balls-out jailbreak here, if you haven’t gathered by now, amigo)
Chili (with tabasco sauce on the side—all the better to blind when flung in faces).
Priest, prostitute, lawyer, lover? Who’s your last visitor.
Gonna go with a working girl, here.
What’s the last book you’d choose to read?
Think I’d opt for one of my own…at least I’d know how the sucker comes out.
Given the choice, what’s your preferred method of execution?
Give the working girl a gun.
Ideally, what will it say on your headstone or in your obituary?
Wish You Were Here.
Hector Lassiter (1900-1967{?}) published scores of crime novels between 1925 and the late 1960s. His works include Rhapsody In Black, The Big Siesta, Border Town, The Last Key and The Land of Dread and Fear. A posthumous work, The Big Comb-over, was co-written with Eskin Fiske and appeared in 1971.
(Hector Lassiter is the narrator of Edgar-Nominated author Craig McDonald's HEAD GAMES. Craig McDonald is an award-winning journalist, editor and fiction writer. His debut novel, Head Games, was nominated for a 2008 Edgar Award® for Best First Novel by an American Author. A graphic novel of HEAD GAMES is forthcoming from First Second. Read Brian Lindenmuth's review of HEAD GAMES Read Sandra Ruttan's review of HEAD GAMES)