Shadow of a Thief
by Norman
Green
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GENRE: Fiction/Mystery
& Detective
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BLURB:
Combining his pitch perfect voice for the characters who live in New
York's underbelly with a compelling new protagonist, Norm Green’s Shadow of a
Thief grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go
In a
previous life, Saul Fowler was a thief-for-hire with an impressive client list,
including the US government. When he seeks shelter from his addictions up on
the coast of Maine, his past come back to haunt him in the form of his
estranged stepfather, Reverend McClendon. “Someone killed my daughter,” says
the rev. “Find out who did it Saul, I know you can help me. Please?” None of
this would be Saul's problem, except that the girl might be his half-sister.
Back in
NYC, a place he never thought he’d see again, Saul delves deep under the
surface of the dead girl’s life. Before long he finds himself contending with
gangs, pimps, prostitutes, the NYPD, and just maybe, the fifth fundamental
universal force. Finding the truth will either change his life forever, or end
it.
Gritty
and unputdownable, this is perfect for fans of James Lee Burke and Robert
Crais.
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EXCERPT
The safest time to walk lower Manhattan’s Avenue D,
in Corey Jackson’s opinion, was early in the morning. Early in the morning, chances were, the ghouls who ruled the
projects at night would be passed out somewhere, not roaming around looking for
entertainment the way they were now.
Half an hour to midnight, Avenue D, a white kid from South Carolina with
his African girlfriend, even the cops would tell you that you were asking for
it, and for no good reason. But at
the tender age of twenty-three Corey already knew enough about women to know
that there were some arguments you weren’t gonna win. “Babe,” he said.
“Babe, where the hell are we going?”
“This way,” she said, and she kept on walking.
Corey could not wait to get back to Batesburg.
Two more semesters, that’s what he kept telling
himself, two more semesters and he would be a real teacher, with the degree to
prove it, and that would allow him to move out of the purgatory otherwise known
as New York City. A degree would
give him a leg up, a toehold in the middle class, a degree and a job teaching
high school science and he just might be the first of the Batesburg Jacksons
not to live in a trailer since the damn things were invented... It sounded like a good plan, it had
always sounded good and sometimes you had to take a shot, but you never knew
when you were gonna hit a pothole somewhere. You never knew when you were gonna wind up walking down a
sidewalk in a neighborhood where you and everybody else knew you didn’t belong.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Norman
Green reports this about himself: "I have always been careful, as Mark
Twain advised, not to let schooling interfere with my education. Too careful,
maybe. I have been, at various times, a truck driver, a construction worker, a
project engineer, a factory rep, and a plant engineer, but never, until now, a
writer." He lives in Emerson, New Jersey, with his wife, and is hard at
work on his second novel.
Author
Website:
Purchase
Link:
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION a
Norman Green will be awarding an e-copy of Sick Like That &
The Last Gig by Norman Green to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during
the tour.
Visit the other blogs on the tour:
October 9: Lisa Haselton's Reviews and Interviews
October 10: The Avid Reader
October 11: Laurie's Thoughts and Reviews
October 12: Sharing Links and Wisdom
October 13: It's Raining Books
October 16: Angels With Attitude Book Reviews
October 17: Long and Short Reviews
October 18: Mixed Book Bag
October 19: Straight From the Library
October 20: Readeropolis
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