BURNING MIDNIGHT

In Burning Midnight master of the hard-boiled detective novel Loren D. Estleman gives readers a hot new Amos Walker mystery.Amos Walker knows Detroit from the highest to the lowest and that includes the gangs of Mexicantown. When a friend asks Walker to get his son''s brother-in-law out of one of two feuding gangs Walker gets in trouble fast. First dead bodies start to pile up; then come suspicious fires and the bottle bombs. Walker is caught in the middle of a gang war. Whether or not a middle-aged gringo like him can cool things off between the Maldados and the Zapatistas he''s got to try; he did promise his friend. Once he gets involved he realizes there''s something else going on; the specter of an international conspiracy threatens to make this local trouble blow sky-high. And if he ends up dead or in jail for murders he didn''t commit he might have to put that promise on hold. It''s tough being Amos Walker.