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The last king of California / Jordan Harper ; foreword by S. A. Cosby.
"Jordan Harper's "darkly irresistible" novel, a tragic, Hamlet-esque noir for readers of S.A. Cosby and Don Winslow, now available for the first time in the United States. Written years before Jordan Harper's breakout success, Everybody Knows, this stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert. Luke's father is serving time for a brutal murder that Luke himself witnessed; now, his uncle vies for power and rival biker gangs encroach on the family's various criminal enterprises. A sensitive boy grown hard man, Luke navigates the vicious pressures of "home," and the loyalties to his old friend, Cassie, who has hatched a scheme with her boyfriend Pretty Baby to escape the control of the gang, the Combine. Hanging over these desperate, lonesome parties is the gang's motto, tattooed indelibly across the heart: Blood is Love. The Last King of California is a story of the West unlike any you will read"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316581400 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: x, 290 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First North American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., September 2022"--Title page verso. |
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| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Bildungsromans. Noir fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Harpe | 31681010412641 | FICTIONPBK | Checked out | 06/03/2025 |
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