The Car Bomb (The detroit im dyin Trilogy, Book 1)

by T V Locicero

Overview

Detroit's top TV newsman Frank DeFauw hunts down the story of a judge who may be corrupt-and is one of his best friends. Booze, drugs, womanizing and a passion for the news are all part of what makes brilliant, erratic Frank a major player in this deeply troubled city.

Plagued by his own dark pleasures and followed by a deadly assassin, Frank is finally forced to decide if digging out the truth about a bribe to his pal the judge is worth risking his career, his family and his life.

With supple prose, brilliant dialogue, complex characters and a twisting plot, this opening salvo of The detroit im dyin Trilogy is a fast-paced urban crime thriller, a classic noir story of corruption, betrayal and murder.

"A compelling and wonderfully written piece of urban crime fiction...LoCicero has produced a gripping tale of corruption and redemption in Detroit."--Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading Room

"a brilliantly composed and complex thriller... fast moving and gripping"--Christoph Fischer, author of The Luck of the Weissensteiners

"TV anchor Frank DeFauw is a wonderful mixture of cynicism, vanity, self-doubt, weariness and wit. A kind of local princeling, his boozy, womanizing path illuminates everyone he encounters in this tight and vibrant thriller, as well as the dark city in which it is set."--Patrick, Amazon Reviewer

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780615811772
Publisher:	TLC Media
Publication date:	05/07/2013
Series:	The Detroit Im Dyin Trilogy , #1
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

T.V. LoCicero has been writing both fiction and non-fiction across five decades. He's the author of the true crime books Murder in the Synagogue (Prentice-Hall), on the assassination of Rabbi Morris Adler, and Squelched: The Suppression of Murder in the Synagogue. His novels include The Car Bomb and Admission of Guilt, the first two books in The detroit im dyin Trilogy, and The Obsession and The Disappearance, the first two in The Truth Beauty Trilogy. Seven of his shorter works are now available as ebooks. These are among the stories and essays he has published in various periodicals, including Commentary, Ms. and The University Review, and in the hard-cover collections Best Magazine Articles, The Norton Reader and The Third Coast.