THE MYSTERY SERIES THAT LAUNCHED GARY PHILLIPSS CAREER
Private eye Ivan Monks search for a killer leads to the unraveling of a far-reaching white supremacist conspiracy.
Robert Scatterboy Williams is a small-time hustler selling bogus Cartier watches in Pacific Shores, a port city south of Los Angeles. One day, hes gunned down in the street, seemingly at random. Then drug dealer Ronny Aaron is shot and killed leaving a liquor store. Shortly thereafter, college student Jimmy Henderson is rendered comatose after two bullets to his body. The three victims have nothing in common save the neighborhood where they were shotand the color of their skin.
The police categorize Scatterboys murder as business as usual. But his girlfriend convinces private eye Ivan Monk to find the killer. What looks like three unrelated shootings of Black men in Southern California will put Monk on a tortuous trail unraveling a larger nefarious plan: the rise of an extremist demagogue.
Monk is an asset in the seriesflawed, human, angry but levelheaded, brainy and brawny.Los Angeles Times Book Review
