ISBN: 1549892819 9781549892813

Category: Fiction / Noir

Page count: 148

Casefile #1 - August 1951On a hot summer night a teenage boy is gunned down in the offices of Astor & Associates, Private Detectives. The only witness; Lucas Helath, a seedy shamus with more experience of divorce cases than murder. An obvious suspect, Lucas goes looking for the real killer - only to receive the impossible message; 'Harry Furie sends his regards'. Impossible, because his former partner is dead, lost in the Korean War.With the cops, mob and vengeful relatives all looking for answers, or at least a fall-guy, Lucas has until daybreak to bust this case wide-open. But the night holds more than human horrors for our hardboiled private eye, even one with a quick wit and quicker fists. Already haunted by his own imagination, Lucas finds himself confronting those who invoke Haitian spirits for power and profit. Voodoo? In LA? You'd better believe it, buster - or that's what someone wants him to think, and it's a damn convincing floorshow. For Lucas it's all one long bad dream, but as the hours crawl by and the bodies stack up, dawn seems as far away as ever. And it's hard to wake up in the city where night never ends.