MURDEROUSLY INCORRECT

THE WEALTHY.

THE FAMOUS.

THE POLITICAL ELITE.

THEY'RE ALL OUT TO GET ONE LONE NEW YORK DETECTIVE.

. . . IT'S JUST NO CONTEST.

MURDEROUSLY INCORRECT

(ISBN: 0-9665899-0-4)

$12.95 U.S.

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Mostly, we live in a world of ambiguity, not quite sure whether our moral compasses always point north. No one more so than the protagonist of this taut new detective thriller, Alex Rada. He's not above pocketing a few bucks he finds in an apartment he's rifling through, then changing his mind and placing the money back in the drawer it came from before leaving. Rada is literally a man investigating a post-modern world he can't quite figure out.

Alex's world is downtown Manhattan. And though it's a cool autumn in New York, the city is in the midst of a very hot political season. Not exactly Alex Rada's cup of tequila. He'd rather hold up in the East Village apartment he calls his office, venturing out for the occasional divorce case, or to serve an easy subpoena. Such are the habits of the indolent detective.

Katharine Raines-a political science professor at New York University-will have none of it. She hires Rada to find her missing graduate assistant, Susan Blake. Katharine Raines is also a respected member of the senatorial campaign staff of Delaney Lynch, the woman who has just won the New York State Democratic senatorial nomination. After failing to reach Rada by phone Katharine Raines goes to Alex's threadbare office. When she asks him why there's no way to leave a message on his answering machine, Alex replies: "I'm not that mechanically inclined."

"You mean," she asks, "not that mechanically inclined like Richard Nixon, or not that mechanically inclined like your basic village idiot?"

"Generally, my clients feel more comfortable insulting me after they've given me a retainer," Rada replies.

Their relationship begins and continues on this same note, and it soon becomes evident that there is more here than just a missing person's case. Rada's car is run off the road when he drives out to question the graduate assistant's foster parents. Katharine is attacked in her apartment by a fusillade of bullets, badly damaging her apartment, not to mention her psyche. Yet when Alex suggests she drop the case, Katharine raises the ante-offering him $25,000 to continue.

Well, how can a guy refuse a lady in distress?

Alex does turn up a lead; it propels him on a journey through the bars and clubs of the East Village, into the edgy world of performance art, and to the precincts of power and privilege uptown. Suddenly, almost as quickly as he can draw in a breath of crisp New York fall air, Rada is caught in a maelstrom of murder and betrayal in which there is no one to rely on but himself.

In Murderously Incorrect, author Henry F. Mazel explores the nature of individualism and isolation in a world of moral relativism. He does it with flare and wit. A past recipient of the Cine Eagle Award, this screenwriter and playwright's first Alex Rada novel is a crackling good mystery not to be missed.

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