The Accidental Hunter: A D Hunter Mystery - Tapa blanda

Tananarive Due, author of "The Good House"

"Night Work" is an engrossing ride through New York's underbelly of sex, music, drugs, and dreams-for-hire. Nelson George creates dead-on characters in a world of hustlers, pimps, models, and dream-makers, a suspenseful blend of seaminess and simple humanity. You won't want to stop reading until long past night.

Tananarive Due, author of "The Good House""Night Work" is an engrossing ride through New York's underbelly of sex, music, drugs, and dreams-for-hire. Nelson George creates dead-on characters in a world of hustlers, pimps, models, and dream-makers, a suspenseful blend of seaminess and simple humanity. You won't want to stop reading until long past night.

Valerie Wilson Wesley, author of "Dying in the Dark" In the tradition of Chester Himes and Iceberg Slim, "Night Work" is very dark, fast-paced, and offers a look at a world that is both intriguing and disturbing.

Tananarive Due, author of "The Good House" "Night Work" is an engrossing ride through New York's underbelly of sex, music, drugs, and dreams-for-hire. Nelson George creates dead-on characters in a world of hustlers, pimps, models, and dream-makers, a suspenseful blend of seaminess and simple humanity. You won't want to stop reading until long past night.

The first assignment is unusual. The second will set D Hunter in urgent pursuit of a mysterious entity that is kidnapping Top Forty hitmakers. Always cloaked in the color black, security specialist D Hunter lives on the periphery of the monied Manhattan nightlife. But he's the man people come to when they need help without the interference of the NYPD. When a rising singer called Night is kidnapped, music manager Ivy Greenwich hires D Hunter to deliver the ransom. Mission is accomplished, but Greenwich isn't finished with Hunter. Greenwich has devised a tried-and-true plan to transform Bridgette Haze's mega-pop-star image from the tween-bubblegum-pop genre to an edgier urban one: bring her to New York City where she can be seen at the right night spots and work with leading hip-hop producers. But the recent near tragedy with Night convinces him that she'll need extra protection. D isn't really in the bodyguard business anymore, but he needs the money. So he reluctantly agrees, never expecting he'll need to fight both a surprising sexual attraction to Haze and the determination of one who is seeking revenge for betrayals of the past. Set in the hip-hop clubs and shrouded secret hearts of New York City, The Accidental Hunter is a page-turning adventure.