Politics Noir is a chilling and subversive collection of new crime stories featuring greed, corruption, insatiable ambition... and murder in the very highest places.

Contributors include: Ken Bruen, Mike Davis, Robert Greer, Pete Hautman, Darrell James, Jake Lamar, Michele Matinez, Twist Phelan, John Shannon and Ken Wishnia.

About the Editor

Gary Phillips's acclaimed novels chronicle the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles through the jaundiced eyes of his African-American investigator Ivan Monk. He is a long-standing LA political activist and labor organizer.

• Reviews
• "There is just something so delicious about witnessing the people we elect to be better than ourselves fall prey to their baser instincts, succumbing to sex, violence, and greed, that maybe we have even come to expect it... Jake Lamar’s “Madame Secretary’s Lover Man” paints Condoleezza Rice as a sultry viper drawing unsuspecting dupes into secret liaisons and certain doom. ...this collection tug[s] on the same corner of human nature that makes political scandals so impossibly fascinating, turning the metaphorically cutthroat world of politics into the seedy, literally backstabbing stage we all suspect—and maybe even deep down hope—it just might be. Compulsively and guiltily pleasurable reading."
• --Ian Chipman, Booklist

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