The Big Easy

This novel of violence and racial strife set in New Orleans is full of social and physical contrasts. Comiski a newspaper reporter descends into an underworld of corrupt policemen narcotics dealers and black militants in an attempt to unravel a mysterious grave-robbing and find some meaning in his own life. Powerful and compelling. (Originally published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin) St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Grim gripping violent and practically impossible to put down. Publishers Weekly: The scene is unglamorous New Orleans - decay dirt garbage... smell every kind of filth human and animal in a brief well-written novel of hopeless degradations that has a unique impact. Library Journal: A short- fast-paced and absorbing novel... that probes deeply into the texture of the contemporary South and entertains from first page to last.