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Black HeatBy Norman Kelley Fiction | Trade Paperback | 262 Pages
On sale now for only $10 (including shipping!). Order limited first-edition copies of Black Heat (Cool Grove Press, 1997, now out of print). When Nina Halligan, a resourceful private investigator, searches for the missing daughter of a slain civil rights leader, she finds herself in the crossfire of a brewing political battle between hip hop nationalism and marketplace evangelism. Shadowed by thugs and the NYPD, Nina discovers Black Heat and exposes the corruption of the elite. Critical Praise for Black Heat: "[Black Heat] introduces the furiously feisty African-American private eye and City College law school teacher Nina Halligan. A former Brooklyn assistant prosecutor whose husband and two children were massacred by a vengeful drug dealer, Halligan is a pressure-cooker ready, willing and eager to explode at the mostly male, racially motivated cruelty that haunts her life... She is asked to track down Malika Martin, the missing daughter of actress Veronica Thorn...and murdered civil rights activist Malik Martin... Halligan's quest for Malika becomes a tour of the modern, urban black establishment that‹as corpses pile up and Halligan unmasks an array of black intellectuals, religious leaders and spinelessly affluent buppies as hypocritical frauds and betrayers‹tries to answer the question of what went wrong with the civil rights movement 30 years ago." -The Washington Post "The plot involves an ass-kicking black female private investigator, Nina Halligan, who's asked to find the missing daughter of a martyred Malcolm X type. Along the way, she crosses many strata of late-90s black society: militantly Afrocentric nationalists, middle-class buppies who've moved to Connecticut, an gutsy streetwalker, some gangstas, some artistes and jazzbos, and a preacher with his nose so far up the Man's ass he's actually developed a scheme to franchise churches in black neighborhoods nationwide, a kind of Big Mac Baptist Church, Inc.... Black Heat reads like a 'philosohpical novel'..." -New York Press |
