Lola
Winner of the John Creasey New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of 2018
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- 27,99 zł
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- 27,99 zł
Publisher Description
Winner of the John Creasey New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of 2018.
Lola stands next to Garcia while he mans the grill in their craggy square of backyard. The barbeque has just begun, and the women are clustered gossiping, while the men hold sweating beers. Lola prefers the periphery.
Business has been good lately in their tiny nugget of South Central Los Angeles, where a legit man has two choices: landscaping off-the-books for West Side white cash, or sweating through twelve-hour shifts at a factory in Vernon. Garcia does not make his living either way. If Lola were like the other women at her barbeque, she would spend her work day perched on a padded stool behind a dollar-store cash register. But Lola is not like the other women in Huntington Park.
Suddenly: a sharp knock on the front door, probably a cop. Lola goes to answer it. The man standing there is Mexican, not Mexican-American, like everybody else here. Lola searches his face for a bead of sweat but comes up empty. She has never met him, but she knows his name. Everyone in this neighbourhood knows his name. They call him The Collector, and he won’t give them long.
To read what happens next, check out the thrilling sequel American Heroin.
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At the start of Love's stunning debut, a messenger from the Los Liones cartel visits the Huntington Park, Calif., home of 26-year-old Lola Vasquez and extends an offer to her boyfriend, Garcia. If Garcia's gang, the Crenshaw Six, can intercept a drop between one of Los Liones's former dealers and the man's new supplier, the gang will get 10% of the loot and control of the dealer's territory; if they fail, Lola dies. Garcia accepts, but the ambush goes awry, forcing Lola the Crenshaw Six's true leader to emerge from the shadows and fight for her own survival and the safety of those she holds dear. This powerful read is at once an intelligently crafted mystery, a reflection on the cycles of violence and addiction, and a timely mediation on the double standard facing women in authority. Love's writing is artful and evocative, her story's sense of place and culture are strong, and, in Lola, Love has created a fully fleshed-out and uniquely compelling antihero who commands fear, respect, and adoration in equal measure.