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Overview
"A woman's harrowing fall down the side of a weedy cliff has left her struggling for every breath. A discarded manuscript is found buried under rotting food in a garbage dump. Falsified identities and faces half-hidden in the shadows of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement threaten to be unmasked. Private Investigators Justin Escobar and Dora Saldana struggle through this web of bizarre clues in two cases they are working to solve. When these tangled threads lead them to a violent showdown involving F.B.I. misdeeds thirty years in the past, these two intrepid agents of Brown Angel Investigations find themselves in a deadly snare." Weaving the student movements at Berkeley, a serial rapist within the government's ranks, a militant Chicano "brown power" group in Denver, and even the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, Corpi once again pens an intriguing thriller that revisits one of the most disturbing chapters for the American psyche: the civil rights struggles and student revolts during the late 1960s and early 1970s.Synopsis
"A woman's harrowing fall down the side of a weedy cliff has left her struggling for every breath. A discarded manuscript is found buried under rotting food in a garbage dump. Falsified identities and faces half-hidden in the shadows of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement threaten to be unmasked. Private Investigators Justin Escobar and Dora Saldana struggle through this web of bizarre clues in two cases they are working to solve. When these tangled threads lead them to a violent showdown involving F.B.I. misdeeds thirty years in the past, these two intrepid agents of Brown Angel Investigations find themselves in a deadly snare." Weaving the student movements at Berkeley, a serial rapist within the government's ranks, a militant Chicano "brown power" group in Denver, and even the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, Corpi once again pens an intriguing thriller that revisits one of the most disturbing chapters for the American psyche: the civil rights struggles and student revolts during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Library Journal
Partners in Brown Angel Security and Investigations, Justin Escobar and Gloria Damasco (Black Widow's Wardrobe; Cactus Blood; Eulogy for a Brown Angel) become involved in a couple of murky cases dating back to the Chicano Civil Rights Movement in late 1960s Berkeley, CA. In one case, they look for a man, wanted for medical reasons, who was a charismatic activist at the time. In the other, potential partner Dora Salda searches for a missing writer whose apparently discarded manuscript details a contemporary rape. Furtive surveillance, bungled burglaries, bugged autos, and increasing violence mark the plot, but the prose lacks consistent clarity and transition. For series fans. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.