Here’s to the lift-off into a full-moon night-sky of Moonlight Special, the youngest but equally bold and assured sibling to Justin Robinson’s sui generis neo-noir pulp monsterverse series: City of Devils, Fifty Feet of Trouble, Wolfman Confidential, A Stitch in Crime and Unwitch Hunt.
The first three books in the series charted the bumpy progress of hard-bitten (anti-)hero Nick Moss: WWII veteran, Night War survivor, member of the dwindling and beleaguered human cohort, the last human private eye in a city of monsters. A Stitch in Crime and Unwitch Hunt ventured beyond Los Angeles, and focused on two important characters seen in earlier entries in the series. Moonlight Special returns to Los Angeles and gives a rare glimpse of Nick Moss through the eyes of a tormented policeman who happens to be a wolfman.
Los Angeles. Where the sun is bright, the beaches inviting, and the orange groves stretch to the horizon. Organized crime is a thing of the past, and these streets are the safest in the nation. Life is good in the City of Angels. That’s what they say, anyway.
The truth is that the mob owns the town, lock, stock, barrel. Honest police catch silver bullets, and the only way to survive is to be bought. Detective Frank Wolfman thought he could stay clean by getting a little dirty, but in the City of Devils, no one is half a sinner.
To save his friend, Frank must unearth every rotten decision he’s ever made in his life and unravel the secret of a “moonlight special.” But the answer is strangled in the oily tentacles of this town and the City of Devils keeps its secrets.
Moonlight Special is available as paperback and ebook in the customary places (Amazon, B&N, Kobo) and on our website. If you order from the site, the print version comes accompanied by its digital twin. Unfortunately, the now-endemic issues with USPS have forced shipping of website print orders via the much more expensive UPS option, which is reflected in the total price.
Join us into exploring Robinson’s monsterverse, which mines deep into pulp lore and is crying out to become an immersive, addictive animated series.
