Babylon Blues
- ISBN-10
- 1546432876
- ISBN-13
- 9781546432876
- Category
- Gangs
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-09-06
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Rock Neelly
Description
The ordinary writer often has trouble switching from novel to short story. But then again, Rock Neelly is no ordinary writer. Following up on his highly acclaimed "Purple Heart Detective" series, Neelly has penned a series of short stories that not only fill in gaps on some of the series' already well-defined characters, but also stand on their own as yarns worthy of attention. Reading a Rock Neelly story leaves you wanting to know the shipping date for the next one. -- Rick Robinson, 2017 Winner, Best Fiction, Hollywood Book Festival & 2013 International Independent Author of the Year The perilous life of a detective is definitely not a 9 to 5 gig. Every case offers a different way to die. You can't make a false step-and our wounded warriors only have one leg left between the two of them. The Purple Heart Detective Agency's Roddy O'Malley and Clayton Grace, decorated veterans of the Iraq War, now sleuths, know the mean streets of the City of Angels well and they'd thought they'd seen it all. But in these new adventures, each case is stranger than the last. Are they up to the task? Lives and loves in the noir world of underworld Los Angeles are hanging in the balance. The Babylon Blues has a clip full of new adventures with our favorite damaged private eyes, Roddy O'Malley and Clayton Grace. The soldiers turned detectives risk life and limb again and again, busting heads and cracking wise as they battle gang banger moguls, assassins, would-be vampires, and other cockroaches right out of the cracks in L.A.'s mean streets!Roddy and Grace are noir throwbacks to the time of Phillip Marlowe and Sam Spade, sleuths cut from the mold created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but with a modern twist-in a pinch these wounded warriors can turn to weaponry and buddies straight out of the U.S. Army.
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