Kill City USA

Kill City USA NEW REVISED 2ND EDITION PUBLISHED BY MEAN STREETS PRESS It’s South Beach, Florida, summertime, and the living’s uneasy for laconic Brit private eye Joe Milo. The local Yardies have a contract on him, he’s rattled a few urns at a mobster’s crematory and funeral home, and he’s also managed to irritate an Irish Republican group who are running arms to terrorists. They all have one wish in common - for Joe to get out of town pronto. And few things interest Milo as much as a sexy woman packing a loaded gun, so enter Cza, a Miami Cuban FBI Special Agent who thinks he should be locked up. Plus there’s a Technicolor supporting cast of villains, lovers, liars, killers, cheats, bloodsuckers and miscreant clowns, with morality and political correctness as a fools distraction, and dialogue you could dance to. Soon psychopathic wiseguy Ernie Moresco sends Milo an empty hourglass to be loaded with his ashes, to put the frighteners on him and his enigmatic sidekick Jonah. While Milo enjoys the elegiac quality of the threat, people around him are tending to die in the mayhem of this wittily tangled crime-noir, as Kill City’s about to live up to it’s name... “With echoes of Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard, Warren Roberts has in Joe Milo created a protagonist with no counterpart in currently published British fiction, whose US peers would be Robert B Parker’s Boston PI, Spenser, or Elvis Cole, the PI creation of Robert Crais. His pitch-black mean streets leave other British crime writers in the dull grey mist, and the crisp, cliché-free, lively and cutting narrative, great sex, mayhem and dialogue and memorable one-liners ain’t half-bad as well.” The Tribune