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ISBN: 1901982556
Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 320pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada, Australia & New Zealand
Pub. Date: August 1999

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Gary Phillips has been a security guard, a printer, a shade tree mechanic, a labour union organiser, a radio talk show host, a foundation staffer and a community activist for over 22 years. He lives in LA with his wife and their two children.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Summer in L.A and the heat is building in the Rancho Tajuata Housing Projects. Racial tension and gang violence spiral out of control when three members of a Mexican family, including a little girl, are killed by a firebombing. The pressure is on to solve the case quickly and Ivan Monk is called in to track down the killer, but in doing so he delves back into the tangled history of the Watts riots, revealing layers of corruption and racism. Monk finds himself at odds with the police, disillusioned with his mentor and under indictment for murder after a fierce struggle with some gang members. Now Monk must race to clear his name before time runs out and a bad night falls on the projects...this time for good.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'In the tradition of Hammett's Continental Op, Ivan Monk takes on a corrupt world. He's ready to go down fighting and he makes us feel that the war he's waging is for our own salvation. ' - Walter Mosley

'Monk is quite a discovery; a 90's successor to Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins ' - Daily Telegraph

'Gary Phillips is my kind of crime writer and Ivan Monk my kind of detective...an unbeatable combination ' - Sara Paretsky