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The people's police: a novel

✍ Scribed by Norman Spinrad

Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Year: 2017
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 157 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Norman Spinrad, a National Book Award finalist for his short fiction collection The Star-Spangled Future , has now written The People's Police , a sharp commentary on politics with a contemporary, speculative twist. Martin Luther Martin is a hard-working New Orleans cop, who has come up from the gangland of Alligator Swamp through hard work. When he has to serve his own eviction notice, he decides he's had enough and agrees to spearhead a police strike.

Brothel owner and entrepreneur J. B. Lafitte also finds himself in a tight spot when his whorehouse in the Garden District goes into foreclosure. Those same Fat Cats responsible for the real estate collapse after Katrina didn't differentiate between social strata or vocation.

MaryLou Boudreau, aka Mama Legba, is a television star and voodoo queen--with a difference. The loa really do ride and speak through her.

These three, disparate people are pulled together by a single moment in the...

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