Pillage: A Sean Malloy Novel

by Christopher Newman

Christopher Newman, best-selling author of the Lt. Joe Dante novels, is back with an exciting new series that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Meet Sean Malloy, a former FBI profiler hired by the Department of Defense to investigate violent crimes committed by U.S. forces on foreign soil. Now retired, Malloy runs a cannabis plantation in the Sierra foothills and is an outspoken advocate for medicinal marijuana use. In an unwanted turn of events in his now relatively peaceful life, Malloy is recruited by a U.S. Attorney in California to aid in a major case of corruption at the highest levels of the American government. In Pillage, he is once again deputized as a U.S. Marshal, this time for a case much closer to home—mass killings and the theft of marijuana oil in multi-million-dollar proportions. Newman brings us head-first into the world of legal and illegal marijuana growth and trafficking, involving the Chinese underworld and a candidate for president of the United States. Action-packed, Pillage, is a timely and thrilling novel of non-stop suspense.

251 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 23, 2019

About the author

Born in San Francisco, California in 1952, Christopher Newman was educated in Bay Area Catholic schools, the University of California at Santa Cruz and Birmingham University, England. He travelled overland from Europe across the Asian subcontinent to Singapore alone in his late teens. Before he was 21 he'd worked for a year aboard a tanker plying trade between the Persian Gulf and ports around the Pacific rim. He wrote the first draft of his third published novel, Manana Man, while in residence in Cali, Colombia his senior year in college. At 27, he moved to New York City, working as a trim carpenter for five years in Manhattan before publishing his first Joe Dante novel, Midtown South, in 1985. When that title met with considerable commercial success, his publisher convinced him to turn his protagonist into a series character. Eight more Joe Dante novels followed, all making various national best seller lists. Midtown North, published in 1991, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Chains of Command, left unfinished at the time of best-selling author William Caunitz death in 1998, was completed by Mr. Newman at the estate's request. It was named a 1999 New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Mr. Newman left New York in 2002 and currently resides in Lexington, Kentucky.

Reviews

[Ju · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fast-paced thriller with a very modern story that takes you all over California. There were a few editing problems though. I look forward to the next in the series but, Christopher Newman, let me read it before publication! 🙂