Home Front

by Rosenberg, Joel

• ISBN13: 9780765304988
• ISBN10: 0765304988
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Forge Books

Summary

When aging copyeditor Ernest 'Sparky' Hemmingway (no relation) gets a call from the daughter of his Vietnam buddy George Washington (also no relation), he has a choice: go to Minneapolis to help her out of a jam or hang up the phone. Sparky's erected a pretty effective cocoon around himself over the last few years, and no amount of aggravation can get through his shell. He's very comfortable in the little North Dakota town of Hardwoods, where everybody knows everybody's secrets but pretends they don't. Sparky's pal Doc Holiday (you guessed it-no relation) meets him in Minneapolis and tosses him a .45, which comes in handy when they run into a hard time with a gang. After dealing with the threat, Doc and Sparky split up, and Sparky takes Washington's young daughter Tenisha back to his place. Between the gang, the Minne-apolis police, Doc's brain tumor, and Sparky's mostly-white town dealing with the color of Tenisha's skin-not to mention hauling a four-months pregnant neighbor and her baby to safety during a blizzard-Sparky thinks he's handling himself pretty well . . . . And then things start to get weird.

Author Biography

Joel Rosenberg is the author of the best-selling Guardians of the Flame books as well as the D'Shai and Keepers of the Hidden Ways series. He resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Home Front is the first in his Ernest "Sparky" Hemingway mysteries, a delightful new series with a wonderfully quirky character set in the land of the Cohen Brothers' Fargo.