Blood & Ashes

By Mark Loeffelholz

"...You need to get all these stupid ideas out of your head, about how you're gonna be tough guys, and not give anything up, 'cause we're not having a picnic, and I'm not going to be playing shuffleboard with you here. You're out in the middle of nowhere. Nobody's gonna hear you screaming, or crying, or praying to God. The cops aren't coming to rescue you. This is old country - things have been dying out here for a long, long time, and there's no funerals, or writeups in the paper. It just gets covered up and forgotten. You'll be gone, just like the dinosaurs..."

WELCOME TO MIAMI BEACH, 1941...

Oscar Jade is a cynical, down-on-his-luck private detective-with a mysterious past and an uncertain future-who lives and works out of the beachfront Pelican Bar & Grill, where he's behind in his rent on his one-room apartment upstairs and hung over from a night of heavy drinking. When a good-looking dame hires him to protect her from her husband, Jade must wind his way through a maze of lies, half-truths and betrayals...and soon finds himself up against a mob boss with a lethal reputation, squarely in the middle of a deadly no-holds-barred conflict between rival factions of a New York crime syndicate...

Classic, retro-style crime noir-infused with breathless, high-octane violent action-Blood & Ashes will leave you 'Jaded'...and wanting more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BLG869CT
• ISBN13: 9798356683848
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"