THE MAN IN THE BLACK FEDORA & Giveaway

 

The Man in the Black Fedora

by Tom Johson

 

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GENRE: Crime Thriller, Pulp, Mystery/Suspense

 

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BLURB:

 

In a city of mob rule and crime, death is cheap, and police have their hands tied. In this dark metropolis, a new paladin arises to fight against injustice. A man of education, dedicated to fighting evil with fire against fire, the man in the black fedora.

 

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EXCERPTS:

 

 

The next day, Jae was staked out in the neighborhood of the rooming house. So far, all he had seen were the regular hoodlums from the day he’d made the fake delivery. But fewer now, it seemed. Scarlatti was losing men faster than his progress on the city block his boss was after. On the whole, mobsters were a dumb lot, but it wouldn’t take Scarlatti long to figure out someone had his crew tagged. Jae hoped it would be long enough for the boss to wipe them out.

 

Besides, Rocky had encountered the crew twice, and took his toll on them. It was about time Jae got in a piece of the action, so he was looking forward to crossing swords with Max Scarlatti, so to speak.

 

Both fronts were pretty well covered. Rocky was sitting by the landline at the mansion, and if anyone turned up at the little community where Sally’s shop was, Mouse would notify him immediately. And Jae had the rooming house under observation. So the crooks couldn’t act without someone knowing what was going down.

 

His mind wondered back to Sally. He knew he was feeling something towards the Japanese girl. Not that her background meant anything. She probably considered him beneath her standards, if anything. After all, Jae Lee had a past, not to mention his current status, as the Mind Master’s killer-for-hire when the need arose. Sally had said she understood the need to fight fire with fire, but he wasn’t sure she wanted to get burned by any fire that he started.

 

Regardless, Jae knew that he had made his bed long ago, and he couldn’t change it now. He would just have to play it by ear, and see how it went.

 

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Tom was a voracious reader from an early age, beginning with comic books at age seven and reading novels by age 10 or 11. He has never stopped reading for pleasure, though his interest in genres have often switched from SF to western, to hardboiled detectives, the classics, and back to science fiction again over the years. In his own writing, readers will often find something about his love of zoology, whether insects, reptiles, or saber-tooth cats. Tom had a stroke in March 2002. Now retired, he and his wife devote their time to keeping Tom’s books in print, as well as helping promote other writers.

 

They settled in Tom’s hometown of Seymour, Texas, home of the Whiteside Museum of Natural History, and the red-bed digs near the town where Permian fossils have been discovered for over a hundred years. A 250-million-year-old amphibian, the Seymouria was discovered in the red-beds and is named after Seymour. One of the main predators of the Permian was a large finback reptile called a Dimetrodon, and a statue is displayed outside the museum. Several of Tom’s books are on hand in the museum. With over 80 books in print that he has contributed to, Tom has slowed down now. He is still writing children’s stories while promoting his books still on the market. Plus, he still has hopes of one day seeing his short novel, Pangaea: Eden’s Planet, made into a film.

 

Note: The Man in the Black Fedora was released September 26, 2019. Tom passed away on November 5, 2019. The book will remain in print posthumously for the length of the contract.

 

Links:

https://bloodredshadow.com/tom-johnson/

http://pulplair.blogspot.com/

Facebook pages:

Tom: https://www.facebook.com/tomginger.johnson

Ginger (his widow): https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010939323356

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/64939.Tom_Johnson

 

Buy Links:

 

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Black-Fedora-Tom-Johnson/dp/1937769593/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=the+man+in+the+black+fedora&qid=1594511372&sr=8-2

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-man-in-the-black-fedora-tom-johnson/1133839667?ean=9781937769598

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/960209

 

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