With Extreme Prejudice
Description
One year after his wife dies in a car accident, film critic Mike Barnett discovers his house ransacked in an apparent robbery. However, only his wife鈥檚 private files have been stolen. Mike then finds himself pulled into a seedy world of local government corruption when he starts to believe that his wife鈥檚 death was no accident. A captivating legal thriller about greed, graft, and convoluted schemes, a man鈥檚 search for truth to reconcile the loss of a loving marriage uncovers deeper trauma in the beauty of New Orleans.
Reviews
"Fredrick Barton's novel appears to be a whodunit, but, to his credit, he's just as interested in the why of things. He takes on tough topics--race relations in a decaying city, the legacy of miscegenation in the South, white liberal guilty."
-The Washington Post
"Honestly written and well-conceived, this is a book that supplies pleasure on a number of levels."
-Publisher's Weekly
"A superior, savvy tangle of greed, graft, and sudden violence with a pervasive subtext of the struggle between unconscious bias and better instincts."
- The Los Angeles Times
"Terrific in every sense"
-The New York Daily News
Author Bio
Award-winning writer and critic Fredrick Barton has authored four novels, a play in verse, and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews. He was a founder of the Creative Writing Workshop at the 91直播 where he served as Director for many years. He continues to teach in the program and live in New Orleans, LA.
