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NEW THRILLER BY DICK AND WILLIAM WEBSTER
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A noir novel of redemption, a lightning-fast chase adventure, a whodunit, and a no-holds-barred love story that reads like a modern day MALTESE FALCON on steroids.
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It’s the Swinging Sixties and Harry Trauble is ready for some California Dreamin’. He’s in Hollywood at Ogle Magazine, and it's nothing but fun and games, until a strangled corpse left in the back seat of Harry’s car.
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ROCKETS' RED GLARE
A Sage Mandiluze Novel, Book 1
"Rockets' Red Glare is an explosive debut with nonstop action and a terrific sense of place. Welcome aboard, Sage Mendiluze."
-- C. J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Battle Mountain

"Sage is the perfect hero--believable, focused, intuitive, and unrelenting. A superlative piece of writing."
-- George Stephanopoulos, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Situation Room

Perfect for fans of Jack Reacher and Joe Pickett, Rockets’ Red Glare is a fast-paced thriller that introduces Sage Mendiluze, a police deputy determined to find and stop a series of relentless and brutal murders.

After two wilderness guides are gunned down at a remote campsite in a nearby national forest, it’s determined that the fatal shots came from Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation. Tribal Police Deputy Sage Mendiluze is called in to hike the rugged backcountry and investigate. Sussing out the sniper’s perch, he and his Australian shepherd, Peak, barely escape becoming two more casualties when an IED is tripped. The site tells Sage there are two perps. The explosion confirms they are devious and extremely dangerous.
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MORE NOVELS BY DICK LOCHTE!
Blue Bayou
New Orleans Private Investigator Terry Manion, just out of drug and alcohol rehab, is hit by sobering news. His friend and mentor, J.J. Legendre, is dead and the cops are calling it suicide. Manion doesn’t buy it, but finding the truth is a tricky business in the Crescent City, where those connected with J.J. are rapidly becoming an endangered species. His quest is helped or hindered by an assortment of colorful characters including: a septuagenarian former madam, a Mafia don and his politically-correct son, an opera-loving hit man, a rogue cop who went to grammar school with Manion, a Southern beauty whose favorite drink is champagne and vodka with a coke chaser, a Cajun Romeo and Juliet, and a bestselling author who has earmarked Manion as his next subject.
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The Neon Smile
When New Orleans PI Terry Manion agrees to work for Pierre Reynaldo, the king of exploitation TV, he winds up reopening a case the NOPD slammed shut thirty years before -- the racially motivated murder of Tyrone Pano, a black militant leader. The more Manion learns about the case, the more personal it becomes. Both his father and his mentor, J.J. Legendre, had ties to Pano that might have been better left buried.

THE NEON SMILE takes the reader back to 1965, a fateful year for Legendre, then a young, cynical homicide detective working the Pano case and a series of brutal murders committed by a cool killer who models his crimes after a 19th Century slayer known as The Meddler.
 
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