Payback is a Dog
He has intermittent flashbacks, collages of guns, crushing memories of a wife found murdered in a ditch, a young son, now estranged, who was kidnapped and then found walking alone in a convenience store parking lot. His name is Ti Boukman (pronounced tea book-mon); he is a Haitian-born, African-American filmmaker and sometimes-political activist, who solves crimes to help out friends. His female partner is South African born TV Reporter Malaika Gifford. His frequent sidekick is a homeless man who once had a family and a fancy house in a Black suburb.

Payback is a Dog begins in 1996 with a fatal auto accident, which turns out to be a murder, motivated by events that took place 25 years ago. Back then, dangerously ambitious FBI Agent, Allen Serica manipulated a paid informant to commit heinous acts, and later illegally removed the uncensored documents delineating these acts from the bureau files. Serica is now security chief at a major corporation and when his stolen files turn up missing, he searches for them brutally. Soon, revenge becomes a popular motivation. In the end, there is one big bloody payback, culminating this novel's Caribbean-style basket weave of a murder mystery, love story and political thriller. The 1973 hit song by the Stylistics inspired the title.

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Payback is a Dog
He has intermittent flashbacks, collages of guns, crushing memories of a wife found murdered in a ditch, a young son, now estranged, who was kidnapped and then found walking alone in a convenience store parking lot. His name is Ti Boukman (pronounced tea book-mon); he is a Haitian-born, African-American filmmaker and sometimes-political activist, who solves crimes to help out friends. His female partner is South African born TV Reporter Malaika Gifford. His frequent sidekick is a homeless man who once had a family and a fancy house in a Black suburb.

Payback is a Dog begins in 1996 with a fatal auto accident, which turns out to be a murder, motivated by events that took place 25 years ago. Back then, dangerously ambitious FBI Agent, Allen Serica manipulated a paid informant to commit heinous acts, and later illegally removed the uncensored documents delineating these acts from the bureau files. Serica is now security chief at a major corporation and when his stolen files turn up missing, he searches for them brutally. Soon, revenge becomes a popular motivation. In the end, there is one big bloody payback, culminating this novel's Caribbean-style basket weave of a murder mystery, love story and political thriller. The 1973 hit song by the Stylistics inspired the title.

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Payback is a Dog

Payback is a Dog

by J Bernard Nicolas
Payback is a Dog

Payback is a Dog

by J Bernard Nicolas

Overview

He has intermittent flashbacks, collages of guns, crushing memories of a wife found murdered in a ditch, a young son, now estranged, who was kidnapped and then found walking alone in a convenience store parking lot. His name is Ti Boukman (pronounced tea book-mon); he is a Haitian-born, African-American filmmaker and sometimes-political activist, who solves crimes to help out friends. His female partner is South African born TV Reporter Malaika Gifford. His frequent sidekick is a homeless man who once had a family and a fancy house in a Black suburb.

Payback is a Dog begins in 1996 with a fatal auto accident, which turns out to be a murder, motivated by events that took place 25 years ago. Back then, dangerously ambitious FBI Agent, Allen Serica manipulated a paid informant to commit heinous acts, and later illegally removed the uncensored documents delineating these acts from the bureau files. Serica is now security chief at a major corporation and when his stolen files turn up missing, he searches for them brutally. Soon, revenge becomes a popular motivation. In the end, there is one big bloody payback, culminating this novel's Caribbean-style basket weave of a murder mystery, love story and political thriller. The 1973 hit song by the Stylistics inspired the title.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780595088584
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/01/1999
Series: Ti Boukman Mysteries
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 5.92(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

J. Bernard Nicolas evaded Haiti's notorious Papa Doc to become a political activist in the U.S. Having lived in Los Angeles, New York and Zimbabwe, he has been a filmmaker, a parent, and an entrepreneur. He is currently at work on his second Ti Boukman novel and a comedy screenplay.
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