[Jack Devlin 04] • New Lots

With a writing style that grips you by the throat and leaves you breathless, John Clarkson brings to life the streets of Brooklyn and the reality of life and death in New Lots. Clarkson's hard-hitting action, complex characters, and plot-twists draw the reader into the depths of injustice, violence, love and redemption, taking the reader into the darkest parts of human nature and back.New Lots, Brooklyn, is the second-to-last stop on the L train, and the absolute last stop in life for the residents of the New Lots projects. If there's a hell on earth, it's here, with a twenty-four-hour drug market, a terrifying warren of dark hallways and burnt-out apartments, infested with human vermin and ruled by a gang of killers. Not even the police will set foot in New Lots.

A war rages here, a war that will determine who controls it. Will it be the ruthless Muslim Security Company on a holy mission to clean out the complex? Or the vicious Blue-Tops crack gang determined to keep what's theirs? The shot, the beaten, the burned bodies begin to multiply much too rapidly, even by Brooklyn standards. The call goes out for the one man who can stop it, NYPD Detective First Grade, Loyd Shaw; a man who thinks he has nothing to lose, and the only man tough enough to brave it.