Gary Phillips
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English
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"Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King's Freedom Rally, Ingram risks ending up one of the victims at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears a call over the police scanner to the scene of a deadly automobile accident, he...
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
Author
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Three Rooms Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Award winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his most thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in a 17-story collection that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction, noir, and superhero classics. In these pages, grindhouse melds with blaxploitation along with strong doses of B-movie hardcore drive-in fare. A must-read for lovers of pulp fiction"--Back cover.
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Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Half a century ago, Old Man Spears was a hero of the ballpark. In an age when baseball was segregated, he played in the Negro Leagues, providing hope for a generation of oppressed African Americans. Decades later, Spears is an old man in a barbershop making ends meet. An offhand comment about a former teammate, Kennesaw Riles, shocks one of his customers, private eye Ivan Monk, who has deeply buried memories of a ball-playing cousin by that name....
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Series
Matthew Henson volume 1
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Matthew Henson and the ice temple of Harlem is the first in a new exciting retro rollicking adventure series. This re-imagined pulp novel follows the Doc Savage-style adventures of the first black man to reach the North Pole: Matthew Henson. The tail end of the Roaring 20s. Harlem. Hired by controversial spiritual leader Daddy Paradise to retrieve his adult daughter who has been kidnapped, adventurer Matthew Henson does just that. Then he must safeguard...
7) High hand
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Series
Martha Chainey mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the turbulent era of late 1950s Manhattan with jazz, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Red Scare as the volatile ingredients three groundbreaking black cartoonists defy convention and pay the price. Cliff Murphy is matinee handsome, a light-skinned, straight-haired black man and a comics artist known for his glamour girl art who passes for white downtown. Stephaney Stef
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Series
Ivan Monk mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1992, Los Angeles burned. In the aftermath of the Rodney King beating and subsequent riots, a ground-breaking ceremony at the infamous intersection of Florence and Normandie unearths the body of a Korean shop owner. Black private eye Ivan Monk searches for the killer -- many suspect the motives for the murder were racial. But then another body turns up, and while the FBI and the Rolling Daltons -- the largest gang in the city -- dog Monk's trail,...
10) High Rollers #2
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
High Rollers #2
Crime does pay! In this pulse-pounding issue, CQ moves up the ranks with a power maneuver that makes Tony Soprano's machinations look like child's play. Critically acclaimed mystery novelist Gary Phillips (HIGH HAND, BANGERS) shows you the L.A. underworld you only thought you knew! Snitch on your friend. Stay out of jail. And buy this book! A potent mix of AMERICAN GANGSTER and THE WIRE for fans of Brubaker's CRIMINAL!
11) High Rollers #3
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
High Rollers #3
Award-winning mystery novelist Gary Phillips came to BOOM! with the best idea they'd heard yet. THE SOPRANOS was the soap opera of upper-class mob life. What do you get, Gary asked, when you transplant that tension to the African-American gangs in inner-city L.A.? Answer- you get the story of CQ, a young man who thought the mob was his family, until it turned on him, forcing him to fight against California's crime families to stay...
12) High Rollers #1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
High Rollers #1
Chronicling the life of Cameron Quinn, a ruthless upstart out to make a name for himself in this tale of crime and destiny from critically acclaimed mystery novelist Gary Phillips (HIGH HAND, BANGERS)! Phillips shines a harsh light on the action and drama of the L.A. underworld with this inner-city spin on The Sopranos!
13) High Rollers #4
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
High Rollers #4
The Sopranos was about the soap opera of upper-class mob life. What do you get, Gary asked, when you transplant that tension to the African-American gangs of inner-city Los Angeles?
14) The Rinse #3
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed crime novelist Gary Phillips (The Jook, Vertigos Angeltown and Cowboys) returns to BOOM! with a new brand of crime! The Rinse is spiraling out of control for money launderer Jeff Sinclair. Not only have his clients flown the coop, but he is also caught in the crosshairs of both IRS agent Della Dash and the menacing casino henchmen tracking down the stolen cash. Jeff only has three options left... get arrested, get killed... or pull off the...
15) The Rinse #2
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Money launderer Jeff Sinclair has 25 million in stolen casino cash that must be cleaned, whether he likes it or not! But with grisly Vegas enforcers breathing down his neck, and his legitimate (and not so legitimate) resources drying up, not to mention IRS agent Della Dash anticipating his every move, will Jeff survive long enough to initiate the rinse? A grounded, gritty look at the world of money laundering in the vein of Elmore Leonard!
16) The Rinse #4
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed crime novelist Gary Phillips returns to BOOM! with a new brand of crime! The stage is set. The pieces are in place. But time is running out for Jeff Sinclair! Steve Maxon, the kingpin of Vegas, has come to San Francisco in search of his stolen casino skim money, and he ain't happy. The stakes have never been higher, will Jeff be able to pull off the rinse, or will he die trying?
17) The Rinse #1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed crime novelist Gary Phillips returns to BOOM! with a new brand of crime! High finance and low-down greed rear their ugly heads as Jeff Sinclair, the premiere laundryman in San Francisco - and we're not talkin' wrinkled jeans and dirty gym socks - is unwillingly pulled into a dangerous gig laundering $25 million in stolen casino skim money. Forced to truly consider his line of work and the evil that he facilitates, Jeff must find a way to...
18) High Rollers
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Crime does pay! Meet Cameron Quinn, a ruthless upstart out to make a name for himself in the underworld of Los Angeles! Award-winning mystery novelist Gary Phillips (High Hand, Bangers) shines a harsh light on the action and drama of the L.A. underworld with this inner-city spin on The Sopranos! For fans of The Wire and Ed Brubaker's Criminal! Collects High Rollers #1-4.
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Faced with overwhelming poverty and a pregnant wife, a tragic, struggling comedian is forced to turn to crime. In his first heist, he is immersed in toxic chemicals that disfigure him bizarrely, driving him mad and thus giving birth to The Joker. For years, the Clown Prince of Crime has been caught in a dance of violence with his greatest nemesis, the Batman. Escaping Arkham Asylum, he plots his most lethal caper. This will be the ultimate punch...
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Some stories are all about the crime. These stories are about the maelstrom of what happens after...A hard-bitten crew of professional thieves pull off the score of their lives, coming away with seven million in cash. Like any heist there are some unforeseen complications, and unfortunately they don't get away without a few bodies dropping. But despite this, they get away with the swag. Seven million. Enough to change their lives, make new identities,...