Big Island LA
9781567030693
296 pages
High-top Publishing LLC
Overview
BIG ISLAND, L.A. In Big Island, L.A., a unique successor to the cult crime classic by Boston Teran, Never Count Out the Dead, a former combat Marine and a crime columnist embark on a suicide mission on the battlefield of L.A. ––a city of privilege, corruption, violence, rehearsed hypocrisy, card carrying culture cancellors, pedigreed hustlers, and a citizenry forever exploited by the lying haves. Known through his pen name, Landshark, William Worth, author of the popular crime column and podcast BIG ISLAND L.A. rules over his reading public from an estate high above Mount Washington. Into the life of this agoraphobic reclusive comes Ana Ride. A former combat Marine she swapped a foot for a Silver Star. Ana is in possession of a thread of information, relating to an investigation Landshark has tapped into. Together, they follow a trail of murder and destruction, connected to the 710 Corridor Conflict. By the time all blood has been spent, scores settled, the dead accounted for, justice will rise from the City of Fallen Angels.
Author Bio
Boston Teran is the anonymous author of a dozen acclaimed novels published worldwide. For a generation now there has been much speculation as to whether the author is a man, a woman, or a group of acclaimed artist working together and writing about America and the moral territory of its soul. Known for a far reaching vision of time, place and humanity, Boston Teran has been named alongside such great American writers, including Hemingway and Larry McMurtry, as well as filmmakers John Ford and Sam Peckinpah, and is also considered a dramatist of the first order. Hi debut novel, GOD IS A BULLET, is considered a cult classic that has been compared to such seminal works as Joan Didion’s THE WHITE ALBUM and John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS. NEVER COUNT OUT THE DEAD has been called a modern equivalent of MacBeth. THE CREED OF VIOLENCE is currently in pre production to star Daniel Craig. His novel GIV - THE STORY OF A DOG AND AMERICA is being transformed into a play in Japan.. The books in his DEFIANT AMERICANS SERIES have been praised for confronting an America mired in hatred and human corruption, injustice, racism and inequality, and his characters' quest for moral order and redemption. The author has been nominated or won over 17 awards, including The EDGAR AWARD for Best First Novel and the FOREWORD “Book of the Year Award” as well as the INTERNATIONAL IMPACT AWARD OF DUBLIN for Best Novel, the Best Novel of the Year in Japan and the John Creasy Award in England.
