The Black Rose (Joe Dylan Crime Noir Book 4)

THE BLACK ROSE takes JOE DYLAN on his fourth adventure to London on a missing person case that tangles him up in a nest of crime, drugs and an evil club-footed gypsy with a beautiful wayward daughter determined to find her own path to Fun city. Enter a dark noir world that spans the streets of London and leafy Kent to the decadent Far Eastern city of Fun City. P.I Joe Dylan, an established character, flawed with drug and alcohol addictions negotiates the rescue and return of a boy, once thought dead and left to grow up a feral youth with gypsies. Joe must take him back to the decadent world of his natural father who resides in Fun City. Drugs, death, prostitution, torture, kidnap, ransom, love, humor and warped decadent sex all speed along like a runaway train with Newman's death defying writing technique.

WORDS ABOUT THE JOE DYLAN SERIES:

"NEWMAN JOINS more established writers such as Christopher G. Moore and John Burdett in an exploration of the garish netherworld of private eyes, prostitutes, pimps, gangsters, cops and dirty tricks."
- Chiang Mai City News.

"JAMES NEWMAN writes with a flamethrower. He's terrifically gifted, enormously energetic, and in THE WHITE FLAMINGO he builds up, layer by layer, like lacquer, the everyday reality of "Fun City" -- a/k/a Pattaya -- with such intensity that he creates a nightmare town so terrible that even the advent of a modern-day Jack the Ripper can only make it a tiny bit worse. Newman has serious talent, if he reminds me of any author it is early Ken Breen."
-Edgar and Shamus nominee Timothy Hallinan

"AN UNDERGROUND rocker himself, James Newman understands that similarity and leaves plenty of original fingerprints all over this hardboiled mystery. [,,,] Newman’s specialty is hard-hitting, brass-knuckles prose that works well in the crime fiction genre. [...] The author also excels in succinct, smartly written characterizations. [...] Newman has added a sharp, poisoned arrow to the quiver of neo-noir."
- Jim Algie

"A WORLD where most of the humans are behaving like primitive bugs and reptiles, just wandering around eating whatever they can whenever it is available and trying to have as much sex as possible before they die."
- Bangkok Noir Artist Chris Coles

"NEWMAN’S Bangkok Express is exactly that, noir pulp fiction."
-The Bangkok Trader

“YOU DON’T skip any words of James A. Newman because you never know when the gold nuggets will show up as you pan across the page. It could be in his observations between the sexes, the act of sex itself or the descriptions of the pull and power that brings in so many millions to Fun City every year, where the small fish are plentiful and always available for a fry."
-People Things and Literature

"Like Hunter Thompson on acid."
-Amazon

JAMES A. NEWMAN, born in London 1977, moved to Bangkok to write fiction full-time in 2001. Newman has sold Pulp Fiction stories and novels to publications in Arizona, Mumbai, Johannesburg, London, Ontario and Bangkok. Newman has worked as a litigation insurance broker, a copy-writer, an English teacher, a movie extra in Bollywood, a rare book dealer, a rainforest tour guide, and an importer of cheese and wine. He lives in Bangkok, Thailand with his family, is kind to certain animals and is very much involved with the local art scene, writing books, reviewing plays, hosting literary events and supporting writers and artists. His novel the White Flamingo has been optioned for adaptation into a motion picture.