VIOLENT SPRING In one of the hottest debut mysteries, African-American private investigator Ivan Monk must investigate the murder of a Korean shopkeeper in riot-torn, racially-charged Los Angeles. (Book 1 in the Ivan Monk series) Rights Information Publisher: Point Blank, Paperback (May 31, 2004) Territory: All rights reserved Rights Available: All Reviews: "This rough, strong, very political mystery marks the debut of a new kind of Los Angeles private detective--an Easy Rawlins for the '90s and beyond...Violent Spring catches the racial and social tensions of Los Angeles in a completely original way." - Amazon.com "In the wake of the Rodney King beating and the subsequent riots, Los Angeles is a racial tinderbox. When the body of a murdered Korean shop owner is discovered during the groundbreaking ceremony of what's intended to be part of the city's healing process, private eye Ivan Monk gets involved in the case. Given the atmosphere, everyone assumes a racial motive, but as Monk probes ever deeper into the case, greed rears its omnipresent head. Monk meets resistance from the Korean Merchants Association, the FBI, the LAPD, and an assortment of street gangs...As an examination of L.A.'s racial strife, it's really quite enlightening. So many of the ethnic groups outside the power structure are interdependent, yet they resent the others' presence. Banding together would provide strength, but it's to the empowered's advantage to keep the groups squabbling among themselves. This is the milieu in which Monk works. Depending upon whom he is questioning, he's perceived as either an Uncle Tom or a troublemaking black agitator. But he perseveres to a bloody conclusion in which the only color that really matters is the green of cold, hard cash." - Booklist Blurbs: Purchase at Amazon.com

VIOLENT SPRING

In one of the hottest debut mysteries, African-American private investigator Ivan Monk must investigate the murder of a Korean shopkeeper in riot-torn, racially-charged Los Angeles.

(Book 1 in the Ivan Monk series)

Rights Information

Publisher: Point Blank, Paperback (May 31, 2004)

Rights Available: All

Reviews:
"This rough, strong, very political mystery marks the debut of a new kind of Los Angeles private detective--an Easy Rawlins for the '90s and beyond...Violent Spring catches the racial and social tensions of Los Angeles in a completely original way." - Amazon.com

"In the wake of the Rodney King beating and the subsequent riots, Los Angeles is a racial tinderbox. When the body of a murdered Korean shop owner is discovered during the groundbreaking ceremony of what's intended to be part of the city's healing process, private eye Ivan Monk gets involved in the case. Given the atmosphere, everyone assumes a racial motive, but as Monk probes ever deeper into the case, greed rears its omnipresent head. Monk meets resistance from the Korean Merchants Association, the FBI, the LAPD, and an assortment of street gangs...As an examination of L.A.'s racial strife, it's really quite enlightening. So many of the ethnic groups outside the power structure are interdependent, yet they resent the others' presence. Banding together would provide strength, but it's to the empowered's advantage to keep the groups squabbling among themselves. This is the milieu in which Monk works. Depending upon whom he is questioning, he's perceived as either an Uncle Tom or a troublemaking black agitator. But he perseveres to a bloody conclusion in which the only color that really matters is the green of cold, hard cash." - Booklist

Blurbs:

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