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Title details for Dark End of the Street by Ace Atkins - Available

Dark End of the Street

#3 in series

by Ace Atkins
Dion Graham
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With a precise eye for detail, Atkins takes Nick Travers on a journey into the hidden pockets of New Orleans, the battered roadhouses and truck stops of Mississippi, and the streets of Memphis that only an insider could know.
The plan is simple. All Nick Travers, a former professional football player turned professor, has to do is drive up Highway 61 from New Orleans to Memphis and track down the lost brother of one of his best friends. But as Travers knows, these simple jobs seldom turn out smoothly.
His friend's brother is Clyde James, who, in 1968, was one of the finest soul singers Memphis had to offer. But when James's wife and close friend were murdered, his life was shattered. He turned to the streets, where, decades ago, he disappeared. Travers's search for the singer soon leads him to the casinos in Tunica, Mississippi, and converges with the agenda of the Dixie Mafia, a zealot gubernatorial candidate linked to a neo-Confederacy movement, and an obsessed killer who thinks he has a true spiritual link to the late Elvis Presley. Welcome to Ace Atkins's new South, where you won't find a single southern belle or dripping magnolia.
"When all is said and done, Dark End sheds light on the underbelly of politics, racism and the junking of American culture. Atkins is an astute observer of life as well as a singular voice in fiction."—USA Today

  • Creators

  • Series

    Nick Travers

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 3, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798890597571
      • File size: 320993 KB
      • Duration: 11:08:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      With a seemingly endless repertoire of characterizations and a masterful capacity for drama and suspense, Tom Stechschulte has entered the pantheon of narrators who are always worth a listen no matter what the book. He surpasses the material in this farfetched outing, in which Nick Travers, a New Orleans professor of blues music, investigates the disappearance of a onetime legendary blues singer. Dangers abound for Travers and those he cares for as his inquiry acquaints him with political corruption and organized crime in the Deep South. The plot and the characters may become increasingly preposterous, but Stechschulte is never less than arresting. His array of Southern accents is as amazing as his ability to wring tension from one scene after another. M.O. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 26, 2002
      As a follow-up to the well-received Crossroad Blues
      , Atkins offers another fast-paced, hot and heavy Southern suspense yarn that only occasionally defies credibility. Nick Travers, a former professional football star who now teaches blues history at Tulane University, is approached by an old friend who wants him to locate her brother, Clyde James, a once famous blues singer who hasn't been seen for some 25 years and may be dead. In a seemingly unrelated event, a young woman visits the home of her parents who were murdered a few weeks before, collects some papers from a hidden safe, then is accosted by two thugs who take her to a Mafia-owned casino and try to force information from her that she doesn't have. Travers happens to be at the casino seeking word of Clyde James and spots the trussed-up woman on a TV monitor. He rescues her, killing a man in the process, and the two go on the run. The action doesn't let up, moving between Memphis and New Orleans as a plethora of Dixie mobsters, hit men, Klan-like Sons of the South and unsavory gubernatorial candidates are stirred and shaken. Some of the characters border on caricature, especially two of the villains, a woman named Miss Perfect and an Elvis–look-alike hit man. The only other false notes in this otherwise sharply observed thriller come in the confusing finale, a not very believable sting operation. Major ad/ promo; 9-city author tour.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In a captivating voice, Dion Graham tells the gritty story of Tulane music professor Nick Travers, who seeks to track down the brother of a dear friend who disappeared more than 30 years ago. Nick has long admired the once-acclaimed blues singer. So he travels the back roads of Tennessee and Louisiana as he follows leads and becomes entangled with a variety of Southerners--Black and white, young and old, male and female--exchanging blows and even encountering fatal confrontations. The dialogue is raw and raunchy, but there are some beautifully descriptive passages. Graham has an amazing ability to create vivid characters, and the action is nonstop. D.L.G. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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