King Of Ashes

Resumen del libro

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama.When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his fathers car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the familyand the family businesstogether. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dantes recklessness has placed them all in real danger.Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, hes forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself, and his own particular set of skills.Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything.Because everything burns.

Biografía del autor

S.A. Cosby es uno de los autores más importantes que ha surgido en los últimos tiempos en la literatura de crimen, específicamente entre autores sureños de Estados Unidos. Se crió en una familia humilde en un pueblo costero de Virginia. Mientras trabajaba en todo tipo de empleos, escribía ficción y vendía con dificultad, hasta que a través de un amigo, conoció a su agente y le cambió la vida. Maldito Asfalto y Lágrimas como navajas han sido premiados y aclamados por la crítica y los lectores. Su twitter es: blacklionking73.