VJ Books has received:  Elizabeth George – This Body of Death, Otto Penzler – Agents of Treachery (Limited, Numbered), Alan Glynn – Winterland, and T. Jefferson Parker – Hook, Line & Sinister.

VJ Books has received:  Robert K. Tanenbaum – Capture,  Dean Koontz – Breathless,  Wally Lamb – Wishin’ and Hopin’,  Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen – To Try Men’s Souls,  T. Jefferson Parker – Iron River,  and Orson Scott Card – Hidden Empire.

T. Jefferson Parker was born in Los Angeles and has lived all of his life in Southern California. Those who don’t call him Mr. Parker, call him Jeff. The “T” is silent because, in fact, it’s simply a letter of the alphabet. Jeff’s mom claimed the T would look better on the door of the President. Good thing for us he prefers writing novels to dabbling in politics. Jeff Parker was educated in public schools in Orange County, and took a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Irvine, in 1976. He was honored in 1992 as the Distinguished Alumnus.

His writing career began in 1978, as a cub reporter on the weekly newspaper, The Newport Ensign. After covering police, city hall and cultural stories for the Ensign, Parker moved on to the Daily Pilot newspaper, where he won (more…)

(Publisher’s Weekly, Dec. 1)

In this crackling follow-up to L.A. Outlaws (2008), bestseller Parker brings the Wild West to Southern California. After helping to bring down a corrupt lawman in L.A., sheriff’s deputy Charlie Hood has transferred to the desert community of Antelope Valley, where his hopes for a quieter life are shattered one night during a routine call: someone guns down his partner, Terry Laws, in their patrol car. Nicknamed “Mr. Wonderful,” Terry is an unlikely target for a hit, so Charlie joins forces with Internal Affairs to track down the killer. But Terry’s squeaky-clean veneer starts to crack the deeper Charlie digs into his personal life. There are large influxes of cash, and Terry’s old partner, a reserve deputy, has connections to the Mexican drug trade. Parker creates a desert no-man’s-land unique in its corruption, but no less dangerous than the roughest of South Central street corners, and Charlie Hood is the perfect reluctant hero to patrol it. (Feb. 2009)

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