The Woke and the Dead (Nostalgia City Mysteries, Band 5) - Softcover

Bacon, Mark S.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218515942

Verlag: Archer & Clark Publishing, 2025

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A public war between a governor and a theme park lights the fuse on an explosive story of hate, death, corruption, bigotry, and espionage. This Nostalgia City mystery is a stand-alone political thriller.

Lyle Deming finds a body in Nostalgia City’s parking lot during an LGBTQ event. The ex-cop turned theme-park cab driver takes a breath and steps away from the bullet-punctured corpse. Was this a hate crime?

Arizona governor Rod Gudgel, running for reelection, calls it a random shooting. He mocks Nostalgia City theme park for its inclusiveness using homophobic and racial slurs.

Kate Sorensen, the park’s blonde 6’ 2½” PR director, calls out Gudgel’s insensitivity and prejudice, and the governor plays politics with the park’s permits.

When Nostalgia City employees demonstrating at a Gudgel campaign office are killed and injured, Kate joins Lyle in a mad scramble to find the killers and shut up or shut down the governor. Lyle hits blind alleys, then he runs afoul of an armed hate group.

At the same time, Kate digs into the governor’s long history of malfeasance, enraging Gudgel allies and attracting the menace of state guardsmen. The governor seems to have armed supporters everywhere.

With Lyle’s wry humor and Kate’s unflappability, the story moves quickly as puzzles and subplots multiply and loop together threatening the park, their relationship, and their lives.

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Mark S. Bacon began his career as a Southern California newspaper police reporter, one of his crime stories becoming key evidence in a murder case that spanned decades.Before turning to fiction, Bacon wrote business books, one of which was printed in four languages and three editions and named best business book of the year by the Library Journal. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Denver Post, San Antonio Express News, and many other publications. Most recently he was a correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. Death in Nostalgia City, the first in his five-book series, was recommended by the American Library Association. Desert Kill Switch, the second series book, was the top fiction winner in the 2018 Great Southwest Book Festival. Bacon gets some of his ideas from experience as a police reporter and also from his work as a copywriter for Knott's Berry Farm theme park. He taught university journalism in California and Nevada and is trying to teach his golden retriever to stop pulling the leash.

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• Verlag: Archer & Clark Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798218515942
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 404
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