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Synopsis
It's springtime in Detroit and Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen has settled in for a period of repose - he thinks. But when a young kid arrives with an E-mail cartoon message addressed to Mulheisen depicting a murder and an alluring young historian suddenly wants to know all about Grootka, Mulheisen begins a scavenger hunt to uncover the notebooks Grootka left behind. It turns out that Grootka knew a lot more than he ever told Mulheisen, or anyone. Such as what happened to Jimmy Hoffa one lonely weekend in an isolated African-American resort town on the Great Lakes, and the advice Grootka gave him: "When push comes to shove, kick is better." Mulheisen soon discovers that neither the young historian nor modern jazz's rising star is what he seems.
New York Times Book Review
How long can Jon A. Jackson remain the best-kept secret of hard-boiled crime fiction connoisseurs? The gravelly voice of this dark, droll chronicler of the Detroit underworld is bound to make itself heard....Mr. Jackson's expressive characters revel in the arcane language and lore of their dirty trade. Jackson always gets it right.