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Informationen zum Autor Attica Locke is the author of Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica Locke has worked on the adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Ava DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter. Klappentext Reminiscent of early John Grisham! this fast-paced novel heralds an exciting 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 spiralling out of control. After rescuing a woman from the Bayou one night after hearing gunshots and cries for help! Jay soon finds himself 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. Serpent´s Tail lead crime Zusammenfassung 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. ...
