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Print length: 278 pages
Age range: This is an adult book but could be
suitable for mature older teenagers
Trigger warnings: violent deaths; terrorism;
white supremacist racism; children in peril
Formats available for the Tour: all standard
electronic formats (sorry, no paperbacks)
Amazon rating: 4*
A group of alt-right terrorists decides that now is the
time–and New Orleans is the place–to make an explosive statement that will
force the world to acknowledge the superiority of the white supremacist
movement. Disgraced former New Orleans homicide detective Starner Gautreaux is
now a poorly paid sheriff’s deputy relegated to writing his weekly quota of
speeding tickets in a sleepy south Louisiana parish. His mundane life is
all-too-predictable until several unusual events cause him to suspect something
is seriously amiss.
While the local coroner classifies the resulting deaths as
accidental, Starner’s prior experience leads him to believe that not only are
they homicides, but also that they signal something far more sinister.
Taut
action bubbles up from the swamps of Louisiana to the hidden haunts of
underworld bosses, from small-town life to urban grit, and from a high-speed
highway shootout to a terrifying confrontation in the heart of the French
Quarter. White supremacists seek to impose their will on a city swamped with
carefree tourists, but Starner Gautreaux is determined not to let that happen.
Amazon link: https://mybook.to/AWhiteHotPlan
Goodreads link:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123857613-a-white-hot-plan
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mike and Ayan Rubin are a husband and wife writing team.
Their debut novel, THE COTTONCREST CURSE, is a historical
thriller published by the award-winning LSU Press. Its story line takes place
from the 1860’s through the 1960’s and follows the exploits and travails of
several generations of five families who own, work, or reside near the
eponymous South Louisiana plantation.
THE COTTONCREST CURSE garnered the Book of the Year Gold Award at an
annual meeting of the American Library Association where it was named the top thriller/suspense
novel published by a university or independent press. A German edition has been
published by Suhrkamp and is for sale in Europe.
Their second novel, a contemporary legal thriller entitled
CASHED OUT, is now in its second edition.
It won the coveted Jack Eadon award as the Best Contemporary Drama and
was shortlisted for the Silver Falchion Award as the best thriller. Combining
page-turning action with a distinct sense of southern locale, the Providence
Journal raved that it features “a lawyer down and out enough to make John
Grisham proud. He’s culled from the likes of Michael Connelly by way of James
Lee Burke. A gem of a tale.”
A WHITE HOT PLAN is their third novel.
A nationally known legal ethicist, public speaker and
humorist, as well as a full time appellate attorney, Mike has had a varied
career. He has been a professional jazz pianist in the New Orleans French
Quarter, a radio and television announcer, and an adjunct law professor. He won
the Burton Award for Outstanding Writing given at the Library of Congress and
is a member of the Author’s Guild, the International Thriller Writers, the
Mystery Writers of America, and the International Association of Crime Writers.
Ayan has had an equally varied career, having been a
classroom teacher, an education administrator, a prolific grant writer, a
developmental book editor, a nonprofit consultant, and, for almost three
decades, the Coordinator of the Educational Services Division of Louisiana
Public Broadcasting, a statewide television network, where she was responsible
for initiating and then shepherding a wide variety of video projects from
concept through script development and production to statewide and national
broadcast.
Mike’s breadth of knowledge about the intricacies of the law
and his penchant for devising dramatic situations, combined with Ayan’s unique
ability to visualize and bring characters and scenes to life, make for taut
tales with unrelenting twists and turns.
Because Mike’s full time legal career and numerous speaking
engagements keep them hopping, they write early in the morning or late in the
evening, often discussing plot lines and character development during their
daily 4:30 a.m. power walks. They are just as apt to draft and revise chapters
while sitting in airports or hotel rooms as they are to do so in their
adjoining home offices.
Together, Mike and Ayan Rubin have developed a unique
literary voice that has captivated devotees of their page-turning thrillers. A
WHITE HOT PLAN is their third novel..
The protagonists and primary characters in each of their
contemporary novels are descendants of the protagonists and primary characters
in THE COTTONCREST CURSE, and the intoxicating action in all of their fiction
plays out amidst the backwoods, bayous, big cities, and body politic of their
beguiling home state of Louisiana.
READERS' PRAISE FOR A WHITE HOT PLAN
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A thriller that will keep you turning pages. A quiet Louisiana parish (a/k/a county) is the home of an exceptional criminal enterprise. The suspense builds with every chapter. A white-hot explosive together with corrupt and lethargic law enforcement complicates the resolution. A fascinating read. Amazon review
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A White Hot Plan is a rocket-sled ride of a crime thriller… Mike and Ayan Rubin do a masterful job of setting their fast-paced story in Cajun Country, a downtrodden and exotic land where everybody’s name seems to end in ‘eaux.’ Their description of Petit Rouge Parish, an insular enclave ruled by a now-dying sheriff named Naquin “Knock” Mouton, is vivid, realistic and evocative while utterly devoid of cliches and caricatures. Amazon Revie
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