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It's 1992 and three people's lives are about to collide against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Vietnam vet Harry Hudson is a journalist fleeing his past: the war, a failed marriage, and a fear-ridden childhood. Rootless, he stutters, wrestles with depression, and is aware he's passed the point at which victim becomes victimizer. He explores the city's lowest dives, the only places where he feels at home. He meets Mama...
2) Snitch World
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"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch blade went through the nylon like a pit bull through a kindergarten."
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the gritty night...
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El objetivo de la obra es lanzar a unos personajes sobre una vasta superficie para que, a través de sus vivencias, quede urdido un tapiz representativo del mundo actual, ése que ha producido la crisis financiera y social que aún perdura. Para ello se inspira, cambiando cuanto haya que ser cambiado en materia de nombres propios, o simplemente elidiéndolos, en los casos llamados "Malaya" (que ahora se está juzgando) y "Ballena blanca", posiblemente...
4) Mexico
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The car rolled to a stop. He was by himself. It was still early, A half hour before he had to be in. The shift change. He had plenty of time, and at his level it wasn't like he had to punch a time clock. Worse came to worse and everything got badly fucked up he could call in sick at the last minute. There wasn't much going on. At least not much that would require his input. He had his partner to worry about, but probably only marginally.He had parked...
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The Beggar's Lucky Coin, a supernatural horror story by Bruce Allsman When an avid coin collector, Datuk See Khor Jee, finds an old and rare coin in the begging bowl of Old So Chan, a beggar at a Taoist temple in Air Itam, Penang, he swears to have that coin, at any price. Old So Chan, however, refuses to sell his lucky coin. Driven by greed, Datuk See persuades Kwan Sook Im, his lovely young wife, his reluctant partner in crime, to help him steal...
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An Alien in the Arboretum, a paranormal thriller by Bruce Allsman For the sake of his wife and daughter, Tom Gardner, a phytologist, moves with his family from the countryside to the city. In the city, he works in a shop that sells bonsai trees, and he also maintains the rooftop garden of his apartment building. The shop's owner is Saito-san, an old Japanese man from Okinawa. A few weeks before Saito-san's death, Tom receives a special gift from his...
7) Drumsticks
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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2022
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Can voodoo magic turn Nanette Hayes’s luck around—or will a tragic murder curse her life forever?
Nanette Hayes, a high-styling, saxophone-playing street musician and reluctant amateur detective, is in a slump. Deep in the throes of a post-affair depression, Nanette is busy drowning her sorrows in bourbon and making enemies. To boot, her breakup has a body count. The son of a high-bourgeois doctor, a hip-hopster wannabe,...
Nanette Hayes, a high-styling, saxophone-playing street musician and reluctant amateur detective, is in a slump. Deep in the throes of a post-affair depression, Nanette is busy drowning her sorrows in bourbon and making enemies. To boot, her breakup has a body count. The son of a high-bourgeois doctor, a hip-hopster wannabe,...
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2022
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This New York noir tale of a saxophone-playing amateur detective takes some jazzy twists
Saxophonist Nanette Hayes, a majestic five-foot-ten-inch Grace Jones lookalike with hot style, lives for the music of her jazz forebears. Self-taught Nan is no Charlie Parker, but she dreams big. She performs regularly—on the sidewalks of New York City. Not exactly the Village Vanguard, but it pays the bills in ways that her master’s...
Saxophonist Nanette Hayes, a majestic five-foot-ten-inch Grace Jones lookalike with hot style, lives for the music of her jazz forebears. Self-taught Nan is no Charlie Parker, but she dreams big. She performs regularly—on the sidewalks of New York City. Not exactly the Village Vanguard, but it pays the bills in ways that her master’s...
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