Sleepless Nights
The Drew Smith Series
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DREW SMITH A NEW AMERICAN HERO The protagonist in Norwood Holland’s new novel Sleepless Nights is like no other before. An urban African American attorney managing a successful solo practice finds himself enmeshed in complicated relationships and complicated cases. Sleepless Nights is the first of a 4 volume crime series. A stark difference from other fictional detectives this protagonist is a distinctly new type, professional, single, urbane, sophisticated, and a good looking playa charming the ladies, clients and Judges alike all in the pursuit of justice. Sleepless Nights abounds with despicable and lovable characters. Drew Smith takes on shady clients solving cases fraught with danger and romantic intrigue. The legal wizard, while frolicking with an exotic dancer succumbs to a midlife crisis. Haunted by nightmares foreshadowing an awakening reveals an empty life prodding Smith to find solace in the arms of therapist Zoë Settles.Life gets more complicated when the attorney is pressed into service solving a vicious robbery that leaves three dead and the city enraged. Drew Smith and his devoted sidekick Julio Mejia work to free his young client on the trail of a crazed gunman responsible for a growing body count. In the end, the gunman and the dancer combine forces to bring Smith down. When death comes knocking Drew Smith faces the fight of his life. Sleepless Nights has all the universal elements: love, sex, jealously, betrayal, murder and revenge. It has a narrative depth that sets it apart from the current flood of Urban Fiction. The author conveys a dark quality focusing on the underside, sprinkled with sex and violence, elements that make the contemporary genre popular among youthful teen and 20 something as well as the mature readers looking for a well written yarn with compelling characters. The author a lawyer and freelance writer blogs at editorialindependence.com. Visit his web site NorwoodHolland.com.
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293 pages
ISBN 978-0-983-16560-6 Hard Cover also available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Mahagony Books, ebook download on Kindle and Nook, Smashwords and Sony Ebook Store.
Windmill Books Ltd. Washington, DC
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