Murphy's Fault: The Jack Lynch New Orleans Trilogy Volume I

The truth will set you free… If it doesn’t kill you first!A New York Times Notable Book From An Edgar And Shamus Award-winning AuthorThe stench of corruption and old-school Louisiana politics permeates this life-and-death tale from a New Orleans that no longer exists…Murphy’s Fault, the first volume in the Jack Lynch New Orleans Trilogy, opens in old New Orleans, a pre-Katrina New Orleans, a place still haunted by the ghosts of Huey Long and his political heirs. Before internet and cell phones and social media, a New Orleans that—unlike the New Orleans of today—deserved its reputation as The Big Easy.Jack Lynch—a hard-drinking, easygoing ex-newspaper reporter turned P.R. flack for the First Interstate Bank of Louisiana—becomes embroiled in a political scandal. His boss, the flamboyant and corrupt William Jennings, has carved a financial and oil empire out of the putrid, steamy Louisiana swamps.Only now that empire and the biggest deal Jennings has ever made is threatened. The Iris Ghetto—the most impoverished, crime-ridden, drug-infested project in The Big Easy—is going to be redeveloped and gentrified. Jennings is going to buy it all, tear it down, and redevelop it in the biggest slum clearance and real estate grab in New Orleans history.Hundreds of millions are at stake and that’s not even the real prize. As always, the real prize with William Jennings is power…Raw, naked power.There’s one small hitch, though. One of the bosses cronies—the corpulent, sweat-stained Civil Sheriff Murphy—has decided to risk his own power grab. Murphy, a ward heeler who can’t possibly be smart enough to pull this off alone, is trying to block the Iris Redevelopment Project.And no one can figure out why…There’s got to be someone behind Murphy, pulling his strings, manipulating him into challenging Jennings. When Jack Lynch discovers that the power behind Murphy is his beloved, admired ex-father-in-law, he sets out to discover the real truth behind the one person in his life who he thought was a straight shooter.That’s when the pressure begins. A tragic, unintended murder turns Jack Lynch from a crusader looking for the truth for its own sake to a ruthless avenging angel…Shattered illusions lead to murder and revenge in this tale of politics and corruption from an Edgar and Shamus Award-winning author. See why the New York Times called Murphy’s Fault “tough and articulate…” and Publisher’s Weekly praised it as a “vigorous and well-written addition to the genre…” View Less