Perdition, U.S.A.
1996
First Published
3.80
Average Rating
258
Number of Pages
Part of Series
When three young black men—a petty thief, a crack dealer, and a college student—are gunned down within blocks of one another, Ivan Monk sets out to find a link between these seemingly random killings and uncovers a deadly racial conspiracy. Original.
Avg Rating
3.80
Number of Ratings
46
5 STARS
24%
4 STARS
46%
3 STARS
22%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
4%
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Author
Gary Phillips
Author · 27 books
GARY PHILLIPS has been a community activist, labor organizer and delivered dog cages. He’s published various novels, comics, short stories and edited several anthologies including South Central Noir and the Anthony award-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. Violent Spring, first published in 1994 was named in 2020 one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. He was also a writer/co-producer on FX’s Snowfall (streaming on Hulu), about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up. Recent novels include One-Shot Harry and Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem. He lives with his family in the wilds of Los Angeles.
