The King of Swords Reprint edition

?One of the brightest new stars in the thriller genre.?
?<?xml: namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn: schemas-microsoft-com: office: smarttags" />Chicago Sun-Times

Nick Stone?s first novel, Mr. Clarinet, took the crime fiction world by storm?winning enthusiastic raves (?Exquisite? ?South Florida Sun-Sentinel; ?A spellbinding thriller of the highest order? ?Chicago Tribune) as well as a Macavity and a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. In The King of Swords, Stone brings back Detective Max Mingus in a chilling and mesmerizing ?prequel? that combines murder, police corruption, and voodoo black magic. The King of Swords blazes with Miami heat?and it earns Nick Stone a permanent spot in the winner?s circle alongside the masters James Ellroy, Dennis Lehane, James Lee Burke, Walter Mosley?and Stephen King.