All the Lucky Ones Are Dead : An Aaron Gunner Mystery

by Haywood, Gar Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780399145407
• ISBN10: 0399145400
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-10
• Publisher: Putnam Adult

Summary

In All the Lucky Ones Are Dead, PI Aaron Gunner comes face to face with a host of gangsta-rap power brokers and some bitter enemies from his not-so-distant past.
Gangsta-rap superstar C. E. Digga Jones killed himself - or so it would seem. All evidence points to suicide, yet his father insists he was murdered. With a successful career, piles of money, and a beautiful family, the Digga's life seemed picture perfect. But Gunner soon discovers that the Digga's wife had a lethal jealous streak; his East coast rival in the business would stop at nothing to bring him down; and Bume Webb, the most feared figure in rap, had a grip on the Digga's music only death could break.
Meanwhile, Gunner is watching the back of Sparkle Johnson, the ultraconservative talk-show hostess whom many radio listeners in L.A. have learned to hate. Johnson doesn't like Gunner - and he's not too fond of her - but when a car bomb nearly takes Johnson's life, it's clear to both that their shared adversaries mean business.

Author Biography

Gar Anthony Haywood is the author of two highly acclaimed mystery series. His series featuring South Central Los Angeles private investigator Aaron Gunner debuted with the publication of Fear of the Dark, which won the St. Martin's Press/PWA Best Private Eye Novel Contest in 1987. The two succeeding novels in that series, Not Long For This World and You Can Die Trying, received wide praise. It's Not a Pretty Sight (G.P. Putnam's Sons; September 10, 1996) is the fourth book in the Gunner series. Haywood's second series features the comic Loudermilk family and includes the novels Going Nowhere Fast and Bad News Travels Fast.

Currently a writer for the FOX television series "New York Undercover," Haywood has also written for the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. He lives in Los Angeles.