With its introduction of a bold new voice in crime fiction, Glenville LovellтАЩs first mystery, Too Beautiful to Die, was called a тАЬpage-turnerтАЭ (New York Daily News) and тАЬstylish entertainmentтАЭ (Booklist). Now Lovell is back, with a timely novel of a brilliant young African-American politician gunned down as his career is about to take off.
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Just when ex-cop Blades Overstreet finally has his life back on track, the son of his good friend and mentor is murdered before his eyes. Blades knows he wonтАЩt be able to rest until the killer is brought to justice. He begins a search that leads him on a dangerous journey into the heart of the Russian mob and, ultimately, into a confrontation with a past he had hoped was buried long ago.