PositiveThe New York Journal of BooksJordan Harper’s fast-paced debut novel, She Rides Shotgun, opens with a disturbingly haunting introduction...the breakneck plot of She Rides Shotgun contains a death warrant for three people: 'A man. A woman. A child.' ...Polly McClusky, Nate’s estranged 11-year-old daughter, an odd little girl who seems uncomfortable in her own skin, an unlikely hero, but that’s exactly what she becomes in this neo-noir, contemporary coming-of-age tale ...told in alternating points-of-view, immediately takes the reader inside of Polly’s head...this novel does well to expose the darkness and depravity (but also the frightening power and influence that this subculture seems to wield, both inside and outside of prison walls) ... Perhaps this novel could even be read as a cautionary tale, a dire warning about what happens when one commits oneself to a life of violence and crime.
