Nominated for the Shamus Award
PRAISE FOR SALVATION BOULEVARD
“This book probes and pokes and provokes more deeply than most so-called serious novels, forget the qualification of genre. This is smart, snappy and unsettling enough to keep a bar discussion going well into the night.”
—Chicago Sun Times
“A surprisingly tasty dish. Beinhart’s complex thriller, with its underlying theme of the dangerous convergence of religion and politics in today’s society, seems certain to provoke controversy. It seems equally certain that most readers, whatever their spiritual posture, will find it absorbing.”
—San Diego Union Tribune
“This is a perfect novel for fans of the political thriller or mystery genre, with current issues interwoven smoothly into the mix.”
—Daily Kos
“Beinhart does a fine job describing the treacly paradise of the Church of the Third Millennium and a finer job ratcheting up the pressure on his fragile hero.”
—Booklist
“Splendid religious legal thriller.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A very atypical witches’ brew of sex, religion, hypocrisy, and evil in which the war on terror is cynically manipulated to subvert America’s basic values.”
—Penthouse
“A born-again Christian private eye’s faith is shaken to the core when he takes the case of the Muslim student suspected of killing his atheist professor.”
—Kirkus
“Pretty darned funny.”
—Seattle Times
“Larry Beinhart’s Salvation Boulevard, like his Wag the Dog and The Librarian, is a wild ride indeed. Intelligent, provocative, often outrageous, it pits a tough excop turned born-again Pl against what only looks like innocence, covering a dark world of power and treachery and deceit. It will grip you, first page to last.”
—Donald Westlake
“A gripping, page-turning tale that takes one through bad lawyers and good ones, treachery and faith, pornography and preaching, torture and Homeland Security. Salvation Boulevard is a great and memorable read.”
—Vincent Bugliosi
“Salvation Boulevard is dramatic and highly provocative. Larry Beinhart expertly crafts a tempestuous philosophical personal drama that will unquestionably motivate intense discussion, debate and critical thinking. Read Salvation Boulevard and you will be consumed in a thought-provoking whirlwind. It’s quite a significant read.”
—Robert K. Tanenbaum
“In Orwellian times, fiction is often the only way to get the truth out. We are approaching such times in the United States, and Larry Beinhart masterfully alerts us to what depths our government has sunk. Salvation Boulevard is a quick paced and heart wrenching call to arms against the excesses our government has foisted upon ‘we the people.’”
—Ambassador Joseph Wilson, author of The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity: A Diplomat’s Memoir
“Larry Beinhart’s Salvation Boulevard pulls off one of the toughest tricks in modern literature: a sharp, high-energy whodunit that will disturb you with how closely it is based on real life.”
—Clarence Page
“Larry Beinhart’s Salvation Boulevard is the kind of pop-fiction detective story that could fundamentally transform the consciousness of Red-state America. And it’s a fun and often quite provocative read for the rest of us! I couldn’t put it down!”
—Rabbi Michael Lerner