Investigating a bizarre case in which the victim was found to have ingested a tarot card, detective Max Mingus and his partner, Joe, follow an increasingly violent trail to a sinister fortune teller and her scheming pimp son.
Investigating a bizarre case in which the victim was found to have ingested a tarot card, detective Max Mingus and his partner, Joe, follow an increasingly violent trail to a sinister fortune teller and her scheming pimp son. By the author of Mr. Clarinet. 25,000 first printing.
&;One of the brightest new stars in the thriller genre.&;
&;Chicago Sun-Times
 
Nick Stone&;s first novel, Mr. Clarinet, took the crime fiction world by storm&;winning enthusiastic raves (&;Exquisite&; &;South Florida Sun-Sentinel; &;A spellbinding thriller of the highest order&; &;Chicago Tribune) as well as a Macavity and a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. In The King of Swords, Stone brings back Detective Max Mingus in a chilling and mesmerizing &;prequel&; that combines murder, police corruption, and voodoo black magic. The King of Swords blazes with Miami
heat&;and it earns Nick Stone a permanent spot in the winner&;s circle alongside the masters James Ellroy, Dennis Lehane, James Lee Burke, Walter Mosley&;and Stephen King.
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