On an early Sunday morning walk through the empty streets of the
Faubourg Marigny downriver of the French Quarter, maverick
journalist and Big Easy transplant Jack Prine discovers the body of
a well-dressed black man with a bashed-in skull. Soon Jack is drawn
into an emerging web of violence threatening Elle Meridian, the
victim s beautiful, complicated sister, burdened with a past she
can barely confess. They begin a dangerous, desperate flight
through Alabama, the Delta and back to New Orleans searching and
evading button men, goons, racists and family secrets. Deadly ties
extend to the Dixie Mafia, priceless stolen art and debased
Southern aristocracy. A final, violent showdown in the Arts
District of New Orleans uncovers one last nightmarish revelation
that may bind Elle, Jack and a mob enforcer named Big Red for years
to come -- if anyone survives. "What Rod Davis tackles masterfully
in this faux hard-boiled mystery is the capturing in a simple plot
of murder, investigation, solution, and deserved punishment of the
essential truths of what it is to be born, nurtured, schooled, and
acclimated to existence in the American South. Jack Prine's]
struggle to understand the nature of where he truly lives provides
this powerfully fascinating novel with energy, soul, and a hope
that he'll return in another narrative to treat further what he
calls 'the hard shadowed streets of the Vieux Carre, the American
landfall for the fallen." -- Gerald Duff, Southern Literary Review
"South, America may be set in the Deep South New Orleans and the
Mississippi Delta but writer Rod Davis takes us into that classic
hardboiled territory once claimed by James Cain: a man with a
wandering eye drawn to a femme fatale who promises nothing but
trouble, then delivers it." -- Christopher Cook, author of Robbers
and Screen Door Jesus & Other Stories "Jack Prine is about as
tough and gritty as Mike Hammer, especially when he has a lady to
protect; corner him on a deserted back road at night and find out.
A story that plays on black and white relationships over the
generations, gay sexuality, the mean streets of New Orleans and the
remote remnants of towns in the Mississippi Delta, South, America,
is an honest, tough book and a riveting read. Rod Davis has given
us a rugged and real character. I hope he keeps roaming the South
in more episodes to come." -- Tony Dunbar, author of Crooked Man
and Tubby Meets Katrina "This down-and-dirty yarn is a powerful
evocation of pre-Katrina New Orleans and as absorbing a tale of
love and evil to come out of this old town since Ace Atkins and
Tony Dunbar hit the scene a few years back. South, America is a
triumph of Southern noir, populated with characters who ll stay
with you long after the last page, including sometime PI Jack
Prine, Elle, his brainy and brave new love, and an all too-real
supporting cast of thugs, low-lifes, and Southern degenerates. You
heard it first here: In South, America, Rod Davis is the new mayor
of the mean streets " -- Julie Smith, Edgar Award-winning author of
the Skip Langdon and Talba Wallis series."
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