Noir

This is the biggest and darkest Case detective Jack Manson has ever faced. The mob is trying to kill him, the police want to arrest him, but why? is someone setting him up? Has Jack went Rogue and began killing Lips Malone men? Has he had enough and is now a vigilante. Travel back to the 1950s. and spend some time in the grittiest parts of Detroit as mobsters run almost every facet of society. See the simpler and yet sometimes deadlier way of life.

Jack Manson is missing, but then again, so is the city's biggest crime boss. Roger York and others search, but no one can seem to figure out who is behind the disappearances. But there is one man - a private eye in the gritty fifties. His name is Dillon Sheppard, and he is on the case. Also, girls are being abducted and murdered. Vinnie Van Johnson and Lips Malone are running the streets.

Marla McDonnell is a private eye in 1954 but that is not the most difficult challenge she faces. She is also a woman of color. And she must face down the one that murdered her partner and find out why every mobster in town is being systematically bumped off. 

Set in the world of Tim Simpson's Noir series, this gritty post-WW2 audiobook. See Sgt. Kind called into duty to hunt down an escaped Adolf Hitler who has settled on and island and formed a new army to unleash in the world.

 This audiobook is the third book in the Detroit Noir series and part of Tim Simpson's Noir universe. 

This book does fall into the same universe as my other series of books I call the Noir series. In those books you can hear about the gritty world of detectives, reporters, and gangsters. Well, that world exists here as well except here you have men and women who are willing to work outside of the law on both sides to get a job done. Whereas the other books focus on the aforementioned detectives, private and otherwise, here the focus is more on the ones that hide who they are.

Manny appears throughout the Noir universe and hints of his past are shown but never fully revealed, that is until now. He needs to be seen as he was and what he came to and how he got there. It is no secret this is my favorite book to write to date. In fact, if I am not mistaken, my very first full origin story and I loved every minute of it. So much so I did not want it to end, and being that it is an origin I had to decide where I wanted the cutoff of his story to be.

When he comes back from fighting in Europe, he finds the city is upside down, there are new rules in place, new criminals have taken over, and to make matters even more fun, his wife has left him but returns with some gangsters hot on her heels. Did she take the money and kill her "gangster" boyfriend? Or is she wholly innocent? And what of Doc Weaver? He is now a turn coat and wanted by the mob as well and in the middle is Jack Manson.

It all comes down to Who is Perh Cushing, the mystery man who controls all the crime worldwide. Well, the search is on. He owns New York, Chicago, Detroit, and others. He funds Terrorist organizations, Finances every illegal origination known, and gives to charities. That's right, he is also a very charitable man, but who is? Well, that's what everyone wants to know.