Fresh Kills

by Thomas Black

Fresh Kills is neo-contemporary thriller about the life-and-death face-off between two very different women. On one side is the powerful Rocsann Rush, who uses dirty cops and drug deals to leverage bigwigs for donations and endorsements for her husband’s run for the governor’s office.On the other is Sara, a car-parter at a struggling junkyard. She wants only to continue on as she always has, as one of the invisibles on the bottom rung of the economic ladder; instead, she becomes the center of deadly attention. When a double-cross leads Sara to find evidence of Rush’s dealings in a high-end wreck stashed at the yard, the women become locked in a deadly face-off. As Rocsann takes increasingly dangerous risks to keep her scandal a secret, Sara musters every bit of her grit and street smarts to save herself and protect the one she loves.“Compelling! Thrilling! Engaging! Thomas Black spins yet another page turning tale that leaves you asking for more. FRESH KILLS delivers the entire package. Well-developed characters, action packed sequences, and a bit of suspense and intrigue thrown in for good measure! You will be hooked from page one through the climatic final scene.”Ray Wensits, BS, IU School of Business, and President of the Indy South Book Club.FRESH KILLS takes us to the visceral world of the underclass as we follow Sara from one crisis to another in her search for a human connection. The author has constructed a Zolaesque world view, but with a one’s free will is not entirely hamstrung by the powers that be. Sara, a true working class heroine, prevails, and her incredible struggle dignifies the millions of faceless people she represents.Karel Van Horn-Seldner, PhD Hispanic Literature at Ohio State University, and Professor Emerita, University of Sonora“Thomas Black has done it again! His new novel, FRESH KILLS, is a powerful testament to the human spirit and humane courage! His intriguing Sara, a young outcast with a potentially deadly illness, confronts a sexual deviate, a dangerous vagrant, and a friend’s betrayal in a desperate search for meaning and survival, only to find them in the tenacious whispers of her aching heart!”Ray Brown, MA, American Lit, and former president of the Marion County Historical Society.

360 pages, Paperback

Published September 9, 2013