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Jones effectively dramatizes the Trump administration's approach to illegal immigration in his superior second novel featuring ex-cop August Snow (after 2017's August Snow). Snow was forced out of the Detroit PD after he began digging into allegations that the former mayor was corrupt. The wrongful dismissal lawsuit he filed yielded a multimillion-dollar payday, and Snow has chosen to invest that money in his old neighborhood of Mexicantown. The community he is working to help comes under threat from an ICE crackdown, an initiative that coincides with the death of 19-year-old Isadora del Torres, an undocumented alien who leaped into the Detroit River while dressed as Marie Antoinette. Snow learns that the dead teenager was the victim of a vicious human trafficking ring that may involve corrupt immigration agents. Snow, who is of mixed African-American and Mexican heritage, is an uncompromising crusader with a sense of humor reminiscent of Robert Parker's Spenser. He merits a long literary life. Agent: Stephany Evans, FinePrint Literary Management. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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August Snow (introduced in August Snow, 2017) is using his hefty wrongful-termination settlement from the Detroit Police Department to revitalize his neighborhood, Mexicantown. That is, until an ICE unit prowling the neighborhood sends August's right-hand man, Carlos, into hiding. August, a former soldier and cop, thrives on eliminating threats, but halting the federal machine is beyond him. Then, an old contact brings August evidence of another predator stalking Detroit's immigrant community: photographs of an unidentified young woman's body, whose injuries indicate sex trafficking. Elena, August's well-connected activist godmother, identifies her as Izzy, a hardworking girl recently picked up by ICE in Mexicantown. August and his gunslinging godfather, Tomás, confront Detroit's former sex-trafficking kingpin, who swears he's sold his business to an anonymous buyer, leaving them to follow the trail to rogue federal agents and another shipment of girls leaving Detroit's harbor. Hard-driving noir, with a strong dose of neighborhood camaraderie; for read-alike comparisons, think Easy Rawlins and his close-knit L.A. neighborhood meet Jack Reacher.--Christine Tran Copyright 2018 Booklist