The Concrete River: A Jack Liffey Mystery by John Shannon. Salem. 1996. John Brown Books. 0963905058. Paperback Original. 190 pages. paperback. Cover by Mohammed Smith.

  
DESCRIPTION - Jack Liffey lost his aerospace job, and then his wife and daughter. All he had left was an ability to track down missing children, so he set himself up as a child-finder. Then a woman from Mexico shows up with only a few words of English, and when he sets off to find her daughter in the frightening urban nightmare of L.A., he is sucked into a violent world of developers and local politicos where nothing is quite what it seems. Before long his search becomes a fight for redemption and for life itself in a world gone mad around him.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY - John Shannon is one of America's leading writers of neo-noir. An L.A. Times bestselling author, he has published fourteen novels in the Jack Liffey mystery series, one of the most critically praised mystery series in the genre, reviewed by newspapers from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to the Denver Post and Los Angeles Times. The novels are set in the various gritty subcultures and ethnic communities of Los Angeles.

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