Hard Exit

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Jack Drake shares a Malibu beach mansion with a gorgeous movie star but hates his life. The depressed private eye can't shake the death of his wife and can't end his toxic relationship with Hollywood heartthrob Amanda Bigelow. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>But an at-risk sixteen-year-old who is injured in an inner-city shooting gets Jack unstuck. As a favor to a friend Jack sequesters Game in the mansion keeping him safe. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Their worldviews differ but they draw from their histories of loss and grief while investigating the shooting and three seemingly unrelated murders tying Game's world in downtrodden Oakville to Jack's in idyllic Malibu. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Fans of wisecracking investigators such as Spenser Kinsey Milhone and Stephanie Plum will cheer for Jack Drake a man in love with two women-one of them dead. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a smart edgy state-of-the-art L.A. noir with heart. Jack Drake is a private eye with grit a few demons and a semi-glamorous life on the beach in Malibu. This series is a terrific addition to the modern hard-boiled genre. </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>                                                -New York Times</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz</span></p>