I asked Ken Bruen to read my novel, and I was a bit nervous to say the least. I just finished Ken's latest, American Skin, his first novel set in the states and thought it was a classic. I got the blurb from him recently and couldn't be happier:
"What an amazing book! The Devil's Mambo blew me away. Wonderful, dark, dark stuff...scared the hell out of me. Noir has a new name...Rodriguez." --Ken Bruen, Shamus Award-winning author of The Guards
Jerry is a writer-director from Brooklyn. His story Dred will appear in the upcoming anthology The Darker Mask, which also features Walter Mosley, among others. His story Marine Tiger will appear in Bronx Biannual II. His novel The Devil's Mambo will be the first in a series of crime thrillers featuring ex-homicide detective Nicholas Esperanza, to be published by Kensington Books in April 2007.
Advance praise for The Devil's Mambo:
“Debut novelist Jerry A. Rodriguez holds no punches, doesn't flinch, and comes through with a knockout performance.”
—Jason Starr, Lights Out;
“Wonderful, dark, dark stuff…scared the hell out of me. Noir has a new name...Rodriguez.”
—Ken Bruen, The Guards;
“Better fortify yourself with a blast of the hard stuff, check your clip and keep your radar on sweep when you follow Nick Esperanza on his descent into the artfully portrayed dark and dank and seamy underbelly of the big, bad city in Jerry A. Rodriguez's The Devil’s Mambo.
—Gary Phillips, Bangers
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