American Static

<p>After being beaten and left for dead Steven finds himself stranded alongside the 101 in a small Northern California town. When a mysterious stranger named Quinn offers a hand in exchange for help reuniting with his daughter in San Francisco Steven gets in the car and begins a journey from which there is no return. <br><br>Quinn has an agenda all his own and he#&146;s unleashing vengeance at each stop along his path. With a coked-up sadist ex-cop chasing Quinn and two mismatched small town cops chasing the ex-cop Steven is unaware of the violent tempest brewing. <br><br>Corrupt cops and death-dealing gangsters manipulate the maze each of them must navigate to get to the one thing they#&146;re all after: Teresa the girl holding the secret that will rip open a decades-old scandal and scorch San Francisco#&146;s City Hall. <br><br>Steven finds Teresa homeless and strung out as their pursuers close in and bodies begin to pile high on the Bay Area#&146;s back streets. Hand in hand Steven and Teresa lead the mad parade of desperate men to the edge of the void. <br><br><i><em>American Static</em></i><em> </em>is a fast paced crime thriller with a mystery woven in. It#&146;s played out against the backdrop of Northern California#&146;s wine country Oakland#&146;s mean streets and San Francisco#&146;s peaks and alleys written by one of its favorite sons a man who knows the underbelly of the city like no one else. <i><em>American Static</em></i>#&146;s prose has been compared to Elmore Leonard Richard Price and Don Winslow.</p>