THE
JOOK
by Gary Phillips
£6.99 - 1899344918
B-format paperback original
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198mm x 127mm Hardback
 Zelmont
Raines has slid a long way since those winning touchdowns brought him
lucrative endorsement deals. Crack, barrels of booze, a paternity suit,
a hip injury, groupies and some shady investments in gangsta rap; can
things get any worse?
Enter Wilma Wells, the leggy and brainy lawyer for the Los Angeles Barons
professional team. She just happens to be of a mind to pull off a job
on her mob-connected bosses. When Zelmont is enlisted in her schemes,
he soon learns that the violence he experienced on the field was just
a warm-up to the dangers he faces with a woman more than his match sexually
and amorally.
“Gary Phillips writes tough and gritty parables about life and death
on the mean streets. His is a voice that should be heard and celebrated.”
– Michael Connelly, author
“Phillips is a natural-born writer who has clearly studied his predecessors,
both literary and political, US and foreign. He writes a tight, unadorned
prose which serves to highlight his excursions into traditional snappy
dialogue and hardboiled philosophy.” – Morning Star
“A hard-edged, wonderfully creative work with the kind of literary
bite that lingers” – Robert Green, author of Limited Time
“It hooked me like a laboratory monkey. Buy it. Read it. Pass it
on. It rocks. Gary Phillips is my favourite writer ‘of colour’
bar none”
– Eddie Little, author of Another Day in Paradise
 GARY
PHILLIPS lives in Los Angeles and is best known for his novels and short
stories featuring PI Ivan Monk. He has worked a lot of different
gigs in his time: a graveyard shift security guard, a printer, a union
organizer, co-director of the MultiCultural Collaborative (a nonprofit
set-up to improve race relations after the ’92 LA riots) and as political
director of a city council campaign. He writes on politics
and pop culture for such as the Los Angeles Times, LA Watts Times,
Rap Pages, the San Francisco Examiner Examiner, Freestyle and Black
Scholar. He occasionally loses money at the poker table, watches his
kids play sports, and finds that walking the dog is a fine excuse to light
up a stogie.
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