Jordan Harper

2 months ago | shepherd.com | Garry Bushell |Don Winslow |Jordan Harper |S.A. Cosby

Luke Crosswhite, the sensitive non-violent son of brutal imprisoned gang leader Bobby Crosswhite, is thrown into his father’s vicious world when the family mob, The Combine, is threatened by neo-Nazi gang Aryan Steel. Helped by his childhood friend Callie, Luke gets a taste for his father’s business. Brutal but beautifully written by former rock journalist Harper, best known for his work on TV shows The Mentalist and Gotham.

Dec 7, 2024 | fivebooks.com | James Burke |S.A. Cosby |Jordan Harper

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Nov 23, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Jordan Harper

The transformative moment in Luke Crosswhite’s life was witnessing his father brutally kill a man in a bowling alley parking lot. He was only seven years old, but everything changed for him. His father’s incarceration and his mother’s chemical dependency led him to leaving his father’s relatives in California and live with his mother’s family in Colorado. His father’s imprisonment and his mother’s surrender to addiction left an emptiness in his life that reverberated over a decade later.

Apr 14, 2024 | bibliosurf.com | Jordan Harper

Devore, banlieue de San Bernardino, Californie. Luke aurait préféré ne plus jamais retourner sur les terres de son enfance - l’évènement traumatisant dont il a été témoin à l’âge de sept ans l’a changé à tout jamais. Et la honte de ne pas avoir su le digérer comme un homme, comme un vrai Crosswhite et digne héritier de son père, Big Bobby, à la tête du redoutable Devore-combine, le hante depuis.

Apr 8, 2024 | hachettebookgroup.com | Jordan Harper

About the Author 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. (Megan Abbott)   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.