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Also by Attica Locke:

Bluebird, Bluebird, September 2018
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Pleasantville, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Cutting Season, September 2013
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Cutting Season, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Black Water Rising, November 2009
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Black Water Rising, June 2009
Hardcover / e-Book

BLACK WATER RISING
By: Attica Locke

Serpent's Tail
November 2009
On Sale: November 12, 2009
Featuring: Jay Porter
448 pages
ISBN: 1846687292
EAN: 9781846687297
Kindle: B002BXH5TI
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Hardcover (June 2009)

Thriller

Reminiscent of early John Grisham and Walter Mosley, this taut, fast-paced novel heralds an exciting and powerful new voice in fiction.

Big oil and its twin, corporate corruption, meet their match with Jay Porter, a struggling personal injury attorney down on his luck, who suddenly finds himself in a situation spiraling out of control. Jay knows a boat ride on the Bayou won't measure up to his wife's expectations of a birthday celebration, but it's all he can afford.

Once a man of virtuous ideals, he is now just waiting for a break; all that changes when midway through dinner, gun shots and sharp cries for help ring out. When he fishes a woman out of the Bayou, his sixth sense tells him this charitable act will lead to no good.

Unraveling the woman's past, Jay finds himself enmeshed in a web that weaves together greed, politics, and corporate corruption. And the secrets of his own past come back to either haunt or save him.

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