WHITE HEAT IBD

Sinopsis

Winner of the 2013 Shamus Award for Best Indie PI Novel! PI Duke Rogers finds himself in a combustible situation in this racially charged thriller. His case might have to wait&hellip,The immediate problem: getting out of South Central Los Angeles in one piece during the 1992 &ldquo,Rodney King&rdquo, riots and that&rsquo,s just the beginning of his problems.Duke finds an old &ldquo,friend&rdquo, for a client. The client&rsquo,s &ldquo,friend,&rdquo, an up and coming African-American actress, ends up dead. Duke knows his client did it. Feeling guilty that he inadvertently helped the killer find the victim, he wants to track down the client/killer. He starts his mission by going to the dead actress&rsquo, family in South Central L.A.&mdash,and while there the &ldquo,Rodney King&rdquo, riots ignite.While Duke searches for the killer he must also deal with the racism of his partner, Jack, and from Warren, the murder victim&rsquo,s brother, who is a mirror image of Jack in that department. He must also confront his own possible latent racism&mdash,even as he&rsquo,s in an interracial relationship with the dead woman&rsquo,s sister.Praise for WHITE HEAT:&ldquo,&hellip,taut crime yarn set in 1992 against the turmoil of the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of the police officers charged with assaulting motorist Rodney King&hellip,. the author ably evokes the chaos that erupted after the Rodney King verdict.&rdquo, &mdash,Publishers Weekly&ldquo,White Heat is a riveting read of mystery, much recommended.&rdquo, &mdash,Midwest Book Review&ldquo,[White Heat] really caught early 90s&rsquo, LA, in all its sordid glory. And had me turning pages late into the night. I think WH is up there with the best of the LA novels, but has an air of authenticity that many lack.&rdquo, &mdash,Woody Haut, journalist, author of Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction, Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction & the Cold War, and Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood&ldquo,Expect the unexpected&hellip,in an action-walloping award-winner of harrowing twists and turns&hellip,&rdquo, &mdash,Gordon Hauptfleisch, Seattle Post Intelligencer and BlogCritics.org&ldquo,A gripping tale of prejudice and deceit, set against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1992 L.A. riots. White Heat is all the title promises it to be.&rdquo, &mdash,Darrell James, award-winning author of Nazareth Child and Sonora Crossing&ldquo,Written in a staccato, noir style as intense as the 1992 LA riots, White Heat is a stunning debut novel. It grabs you with the intensity of the riots and keeps the anxiety and tension pushing full-throttle right up to the bittersweet ending. White Heat is a hard-hitting, noir detective thriller that also deals with tough issues like racism, the &lsquo,diversity&rsquo, of racism, and the human condition.&rdquo, &mdash,Andrew McAleer, bestselling author of 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists and Fatal Deeds