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Overview: John Ridley is an American screenwriter, television director, novelist and showrunner, known for Twelve Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also the creator and showrunner of the anthology series American Crime. He also directed the documentary film Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Love is a Racket:
In his first novel since Stray Dogs, John Ridley offers up a brilliant noir farce about a small-time con man who finally gets it right just before it all goes wrong.
Everything’s a racket for Jeffty Kittridge, a thirty- seven-year-old ex-wannabe scriptwriter living on the skids in Hollywood: the two-bit cons he pulls for spending money, the way he convinces himself that he’s not a drunk between every shot of booze he kicks back, the way he tries to assure Dumas, the local shark, that he’s just about to pay off his 15K debt. Except he’s not good at any of that. He’s been in jail twic, that bug he just felt crawling up his neck is most likely the first installment of the DTs and Dumas recently delivered a fairly emphatic payment-due a couple of his goons busted two of Jeffty’s fingers. The fact is, Jeffty’s a loser, big as they come, and things aren’t about to change up for him anytime.
Then he stumbles on a dirt-caked, street-hardened, exquisitely beautiful young homeless woman named Mona, who inspires both his love and the idea for the perfect con. It’s Jeffty’s chance to hit it big, and to be set for good in his new life with his new love. But as the momentum of the con carries him closer and closer to what he imagines will be a moment of blissed-out consummation with his angel Mona, Jeffty discovers there are some severe exceptions to his rule.
Smart, edgy, caustically funny, Love is a Racket puts John Ridley in a darkly comic league of his own.
The Drift:
He was Charles Harmon, a black man living white and living well, with a beautiful wife, a German car and a big house in an upper-upper-middle-class suburb of Los Angeles.
He is Brain Nigger Charlie, a train tramp eking out a ragged existence on the railroads, leaning on drugs to keep him from thinking about everything he had, everything his creeping dementia has forced him to run from.
Charlie’s been asked a desperate find the seventeen-year-old niece of the man who taught him how to survive the rails, a girl lost somewhere on the High Line, the corridors of racist hate along the tracks of the Pacific Northwest. Charlie has little hope of finding her alive, but the request is an obligation he can’t refuse. The search is a twisted trail that leads from Iowa to Washington State, mixing lies and deceit, hate and hopelessness and brutal, stubbornly unsolved murders. All of which Charlie is prepared to meet in kind. What he isn’t prepared for is a path that will eventually lead him back to what he thought no longer existed, his own humanity, though the toll may turn out to be his life.
At once stunningly visceral and psychologically complex, furiously paced and deeply empathic, The Drift is John Ridley’s most ambitious, most galvanizing novel yet.
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