Winner of the Hammett Prize and the Nero Award From the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit\'s bankrupt factory districts, August Snow is a fast-paced tale of murder, greed, sex, economic cyber-terrorism, race and urban decay.
What begins as an inquiry into Eleanore Paget\'s death soon drags August into a rat\'s nest of Detroit\'s most dangerous criminals, from corporate embezzlers to tattooed mercenaries..
A day later, Paget is dead of an apparent suicide--which August isn\'t buying for a minute.
But detective work is no longer August\'s beat, and he declines.
Powerful and manipulative, Paget wants August to investigate the increasingly unusual happenings at her private wealth management bank.
It\'s not long before he\'s summoned to the palatial Grosse Pointe Estates home of business magnate Eleanore Paget.
He has just returned to the house he grew up in after a year away, and quickly learns he has many scores to settle.
But August fought back; he took on the city and got himself a $12 million wrongful dismissal settlement that left him low on friends.
The son of an African-American father and a Mexican-American mother, August grew up in the city\'s Mexicantown and joined the police force only to be drummed out by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians.
Tough, smart, and struggling to stay alive, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit.
Winner of the Hammett Prize and the Nero Award From the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit\'s bankrupt factory districts, August Snow is a fast-paced tale of murder, greed, sex, economic cyber-terrorism, race and urban decay
