Authorpreneur Dashboard – Tom LoCicero
The Car Bomb (The detroit im dying Trilogy, Book 1)
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Detroit’s top TV anchor Frank DeFauw hunts down the story of a judge who may be corrupt—and is one of his best friends. Booze, drugs, womanizing and a passion for the news are all part of what makes this brilliant, erratic newsman a major player in this deeply troubled city. Finally, Frank decides if digging out the truth about his pal the judge is worth risking his own career, family and life. “A compelling and wonderfully written piece of urban crime fiction, The Car Bomb is a pleasure from start to finish. With its economical and supple prose, brilliant dialogue, sharply-drawn characters and plot that keeps the pages turning, LoCicero has produced a gripping tale of corruption and redemption in Detroit.” --Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading Room “a brilliantly composed and complex thriller… fast moving and gripping” --Christoph Fischer, author of The Luck of the Weissensteiners “TV anchor Frank Defauw is a wonderful mixture of cynicism, vanity, self-doubt, weariness and wit. A kind of local princeling, his boozy, womanizing path illuminates everyone he encounters in this tight and vibrant thriller, as well as the dark city in which it is set.” --Patrick, Amazon Reviewer
Book Bubbles from The Car Bomb (The detroit im dying Trilogy, Book 1)
Finding the Beginning
Often in the novels I write it takes me awhile to find where the book should begin. Once I wrote the whole first draft, over 500 pages, before it became clear that the story's most effective open was sitting there about 100 pages in. With another book I found the beginning in Chapter 4. But with The Car Bomb there was never any doubt. I began the book just as you see it now, with a commonplace, even banal scene, without the slightest hint that within a page or two it will end with a shocking and horrible event. These days a car bomb killing innocents is practically everyday news, though usually the report is from someplace on the other side of the world. In this case, it happens very close to home, albeit in a deeply troubled American city sometimes described as "third world." To me it seemed the perfect way to begin a tale of corruption, betrayal and murder.
