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Payback is a Dog: A Ti Boukman Mystery - Couverture souple

Nicolas, J. Bernard

 
9780595088584: Payback is a Dog: A Ti Boukman Mystery
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595088589 ISBN 13 : 9780595088584
Editeur : iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

He has intermittent flashbacks, collages of guns, crushing memories of a wife found murdered in a ditch, a young son, now estranged, who was kidnapped and then found walking alone in a convenience store parking lot. His name is Ti Boukman (pronounced tea book-mon); he is a Haitian born, African American filmmaker and sometimes-political activist, who solves crimes to help out friends. His female partner is South African born TV Reporter Malaika Gifford. His frequent sidekick is a homeless man who once had a family and a fancy house in a Black suburb. Payback is a Dog begins in 1996 with a fatal auto accident which turns out to be a murder, motivated by events that took place 25 years ago. Back then, dangerously ambitious FBI Agent, Allen Serica manipulated a paid informant to commit heinous acts, and later illegally removed the uncensored documents delineating these acts from the bureau files. Serica is now security chief at a major corporation and when his stolen files turn up missing, he searches for them brutally. Soon, revenge becomes a popular motivation. In the end, there is one big bloody payback, culminating this novel's Caribbean style basket weave of a murder mystery, love story and political thriller. The 1973 hit song by the Stylistics inspired the title.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

He has intermittent flashbacks, collages of guns, crushing memories of a wife found murdered in a ditch, a young son, now estranged, who was kidnapped and then found walking alone in a convenience store parking lot. His name is Ti Boukman (pronounced tea book-mon); he is a Haitian born, African American filmmaker and sometimes-political activist, who solves crimes to help out friends. His female partner is South African born TV Reporter Malaika Gifford. His frequent sidekick is a homeless man who once had a family and a fancy house in a Black suburb. Payback is a Dog begins in 1996 with a fatal auto accident which turns out to be a murder, motivated by events that took place 25 years ago. Back then, dangerously ambitious FBI Agent, Allen Serica manipulated a paid informant to commit heinous acts, and later illegally removed the uncensored documents delineating these acts from the bureau files. Serica is now security chief at a major corporation and when his stolen files turn up missing, he searches for them brutally. Soon, revenge becomes a popular motivation. In the end, there is one big bloody payback, culminating this novel's Caribbean style basket weave of a murder mystery, love story and political thriller. The 1973 hit song by the Stylistics inspired the title.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595088589
ISBN 13 
9780595088584
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
180
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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