YOU WANT A TOUGH, SOUTHERN DETECTIVE? YOU GOT ONE!

LIFE__ Nick DeLeon's a southron man, with a home on Colonial Lake, as the Charleston Peninsula divides, part of the SOB section. This historic district near Charleston Battery reflects not virtue, but stressed beauty and buttery low-country wives. Eleven acres of James Isle swamp raised Nick - - cotton-mouth swamp, gator-tail and a whiskey still. Three dim years in Kabul and 4 on NYPD Vice confirmed mans corruption. His wife Eves' family sailed the Ashley River before the first slaves; half starved , the other half learned to grow **TABACHI** from the Red-man, became and stayed wealthy -- those not slaughtered at Shiloh or Stones River. She gave him coltish daughter and son for which her heart rules. Can't forget Nicks three off-center pals, a Ta-Ching_56, affection for all matters technical and a partner who never saw a man she didn't enjoy -- shooting.

The author promises darkside hardboil scrolled in textboxes -- some .MIDs perhaps -- altogether, the reading effort mimics breathing beneath a mud-pond. Welcome to Nicks world and narration, unordered in time yet capturing meter of Charlestons life. You will find no explicit gore, no porn and spare potty-mouth as Nick DeLeon is a gentleman. However the crime stories reflect adult themes not intended for children.

Bjorn Lynne blue jazz sez ............................................................................................................................................. Dan Thompsons darkside Colonial Lake

NAME__ Nick DeLeon JOB__Detective Lieutenant, Homicide: Charleston, SC. FAV WEAPONS__The Social Contract, 10-gauge Coachgun

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