Fiction. African American Studies. In this collection you'll encounter starry-eyed sinners, street corner revolutionaries, Hollywood hustlers, over-heated politicians, rightwing assholes, a ghost or two, cavorting cops, architects with issues, and a little old lady with a popgun—all out to make their mark in the city of dreams and despair.
Author City: Los Angeles, CA USA
Gary Phillips has written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, Washington Post and regularly posts on online at FourStory. His novels include The Perpetrators, The Underbelly, THE JOOK, and seven books in the Ivan Monk and Martha Chainey series. Phillips has also contributed to and edited short story collections such as THE COCAINE CHRONICLES, Politics Noir, ORANGE COUNTY NOIR and Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail!
Reviews and Other Links
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Publishers Weekly (review of previous edition published by Dennis McMillan Publications, now out of print)