River City Blues

Autorentext

Ward Howarth was born in 1976 in Richmond, VA, and lives there with his wife and son. "River City Blues" is his first novel.

Klappentext

It's early 1944 and Richmond, Virginia is a devil's paradise. Ration scams and police corruption are rampant while the inflated black market commands top dollar. Detective Sergeant Bennie Sherwood, fresh off a soul-scarring tour of duty with the Marines, couldn't care less. His old man was recently murdered under suspect circumstances and he's on a hunt for the truth. But then an old friend is killed during a botched black market raid and Bennie is thrust onto a hellride through Richmond's underworld. Suddenly, he's at the front lines of a new kind of war, one that's played out in gentlemen's clubs and back alleys between tobacco kingpins and numbers runners. It's a dark, twisted journey that will test Bennie's every limit, even as it gets him closer to the truth about his father...