In the lively, but desperate world of D.C.'s underbelly, a Black
homeless man must quickly learn the ropes of being a detective
after a wealthy ex-government official sets him up to take the fall
for a brutal crime he didn't commit. Christopher Chambers, author
of A Prayer for Deliverance and Sympathy for the Devil (NAACP Image
Award nominee) brings a 21st-century take on hardboiled noir tales
in SCAVENGER, a gripping thriller underscored by themes of race,
homelessness, hustling, and the savagery-and salvation-of the human
psyche. The novel centers on Dickie Cornish, a Black streetwise
survivor living in a homeless camp near D.C.'s Smithsonian Museum
of Natural History. Framed for the murder of two of his closest
friends and facing life in prison, Dickie crosses paths with
wealthy ex-Homeland Security Secretary, Jamie Bracht. Bracht offers
him a chance at a new life if Dickie can navigate an underground
world to uncover a prize Bracht will stop at nothing to acquire. As
Dickie searches, SCAVENGER tracks its way through an underground
population of Washington, D.C., where hustlers, drug addicts,
homeless, and undocumented immigrants jostle for crumbs while
trying to survive. Chambers paints a portrait of D.C. from the
ground up, with back-alley streetscapes, gentrification clashes,
and unexpected encounters between politicians and bottom-rung
natives-all set against a soundscape of patois, street Spanish, and
D.C. slang. A hopeless amateur detective at first, Dickie quickly
learns the ropes of being a sleuth in a cat-and-mouse game of
greed, deceit, double-crossing, and murder. As Washington City
Paper notes: "Like Hammett with San Francisco or Chandler with Los
Angeles, Chambers' mystery is as much about Washington as it is
about the amoral monsters who prey on ordinary people and the lone
gumshoe who takes them on."
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