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GHOST SKINS
Vern E. Smith
September 2024 978-8-9904610-0-1-7DESCRIPTION:
Chicago…
America’s domestic terrorism threat unfolds in a pulse-pounding narrative as Chicago Police Special Homicide Unit Detective Emerson Dawes probes the shooting of a beloved NFL star by a white police officer. The search for the truth as tensions in the city grow morphs into an international conspiracy that threatens not only Dawes’s life but the lives of his wife and son.
With time
running out, Dawes must forge an uneasy alliance with an FBI agent
in a race to prevent more acts of terror. Meanwhile, a mysterious
foreign spy stalks Chicago, watching the fuse tick down on a human
time bomb. GHOST SKINS leaps forward like an uncoiled snake,
gripping the reader through the twists and turns of a master
storyteller.
EXCERPT:
GHOST SKINS
Chicago Transit Authority
Forest Park Station
Early Tuesday evening
A young white man with pock-marked skin, about 19, wearing a tan-and-green Cubs' baseball cap turned backwards, got off CTA Blue Line Train No. 86 at the Forest Park Station and made his way out into the parking lot.
An older model blue Ford Econoline E-150 van had just entered the lot and drove down to the far end.
The Pebbly-faced man glanced down at his watch. 8:05.
He watched the blue van turn left down a row of cars and followed it.
The van had been backed into a space with the headlights still on when the pebbly-faced man turned down Aisle 7.
As he got closer, the van's lights went off. The pebbly-faced man came up to the driver's side.
He stared at the lean, hard face of the man behind the wheel. The driver's Mohawk haircut gave him a fierce warrior effect as he stared back.
"You Cutter?"
"Who wants to know?"
"Savage Sam," the pebbly-face man answered.
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Readers are raving about Vern E. Smith "GHOST SKINS"
"Walter Mosley look out. Vern Smith is back, doing for Chicago and Detroit what Chester Himes did for Harlem back in the day. Knock Back Ghost Skins and follow up with The Jones Men as your chaser. Respect."
--Tom Matthews, Sag Harbor, N.Y.
"..Wow, Vern Smith, Ghost Skins is a page-turner."
--Matthew Teutsch, Interminable Ramblings
""'Ghost Skins' is a great read. Non-stop pace and layers and layers of revealing political intrigue & social commentary."
--Jimmy Garrett, San Jose, CA "
"Reading your book. Almost done. Love it."
--Tongue Francois, Atlanta, GA
"This book is about what's happening today. I bought four copies.
--Charles Ellis, Magnolia, Ms
"I'm 80 pages into the book and literally can't put it down. I think the proverbial 'they' would call it a page turner."
--Bob Reid, Fayetteville, GA
And reviewers raved about The Jones Men
i"Smith's hallmark of excellence is a mastery of dialogue…"
--San Francisco Examiner
“’The Wire’” before ‘The Wire.’”
---Gar Anthony Haywood, author of Cemetery Road
“…Develops at a dizzying pace in very cinematic chapters. The novel involves you and engages you from beginning to end.”
---MC Alberto, Hip Hop Life-Spain
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