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sought not only by the police but by private detective Nate Hollis. The more Hollis digs, the more dirt on Burnett he finds, including a sex tape featuring Burnett with Monica Orozco, Burnett's lawyer and an ex-lover of Hollis', and soft-core porn starlet and z-list actress "Toasty", the daughter of local crime lord Paul Teddy.
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Allison Dillon, the white wife of African-American basketball star Theophus Burnett, is discovered murdered in her home. After the acrimonious end of their marriage, Dillon had written a scabrous tell-all celebrity memoir, and Burnett is considered the primary suspect, but has disappeared. He is
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Hollis comes to believe that Burnett is innocent, but cannot prove it without information from Burnett himself. Hollis eventually locates Burnett in a beach house in
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Shawn Martinbrough
Publisher
Vertigo Comics
Limited series
Crime
Shawn Martinbrough
Gary Phillips
Shawn Martinbrough
Letterer(s)
Colorist(s)
Lee Loughridge
comic book
limited series
Gary Phillips
Shawn Martinbrough
Vertigo Comics
DC Comics
blaxploitation
Chester Himes
Walter Mosley
Moonstone Books
Malibu


Irvine, Alex
Dorling Kindersley
ISBN
978-0-7566-4122-1
OCLC

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