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MIAMI BABYLON: CRIME WEALTH, AND POWER — A DISPATCH FROM THE BEACH by Gerald Posner — From its beginnings in the 1890s, Miami Beach has been a place made by visionaries and hustlers. During Prohibition, Al Capone had to muscle into its bootlegging and gambling businesses. After December 1941, when the Beach was the training ground for half a million army recruits, even the war couldn’t stop the party. After a short postwar boom, the city’s luck gave out. In 1981, 125,000 Cubans arrived by the boatload. The empty streets of South Beach, lined with dilapidated Art Deco hotels, were about to be changed irrevocably by the culture of money that moved in behind cocaine and crime. Posner takes us inside the intertwined lives of politicians, financiers, nightclub owners and real estate developers who have fed the Beach’s unquenchable desire for wealth, flash and hype.
SERVANT OF A DARK GOD by John Brown — The launch of a towering new fantasy series introduces an elaborate new world, a strange and dark system of magic, and a cast of compelling characters and monsters. Young Talen lives in a world where the days of a person’s life can be harvested, bought and stolen. Only the great Divines, who rule every land, and the human soul-eaters, dark ones who steal from man and beast and become twisted by their polluted draws, know the secrets of this power. This land’s Divine has gone missing and soul-eaters are found among Talen’s people. The Clans muster a massive hunt, and Talen finds himself a target.
THE SOLOMON EFFECT by C.S. Graham — A remote viewer working in top secret for the U.S. government, October Guinness can “see” events occurring on the other side of the globe. But she and her loose cannon partner, CIA agent Jax Alexander — who questions the validity of Tobie’s “gift” — have arrived too late to prevent a bloodbath … and perhaps the Apocalypse as well. Now every second brings the unthinkable a step closer — and places Tobie and Jax in the gunsights of powerful enemies in frighteningly high places — as they race to connect the dots between an impending catastrophe and a nightmare cultivated decades earlier by Nazi scientists with an evil agenda about to become all too real.
CANTICLE by Ken Scholes — It is nine months after the end of LAMENTATION. Many noble allies have come to the Ninefold Forest for a Feast in honor of General Rudolfo’s first-born child. Jin Li Tam, his wife and mother of his heir, lies in childbed. As the feast begins, the doors of the hall fly open and invisible assassins begin attacking. All of Rudolfo’s noble guests are slain, including Hanric, the Marsh Queen’s Shadow. And on the Keeper’s Gate, which guards the Named Lands from the Churning Waste, a strange figure appears, with a message for Petronus, the Hidden Pope. Thus begins the second movement of The Psalms of Isaak.
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