On the Spotlight: 'Chickenhawk,' by Arnaldo Lopez Jr.
Title: Chickenhawk
Genre: Thriller
Author: Arnaldo
Lopez Jr.
Publisher: Koehler
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About the Book:
Chickenhawk is an urban crime fiction novel that
showcases New York City's diversity, as well as the dark side of race
relations, politics, sexuality, illness, madness, and infidelity. Eddie Ramos
and Tommy Cucitti are Manhattan North Homicide detectives after a serial killer
that manages to stay below their radar while the body count keeps climbing in a
city that’s turning into a powder keg.
About the Author:
Arnaldo
Lopez Jr. has been employed by New York City Transit for twenty-eight years and
was formerly employed as a dispatcher with the NYPD. Mr. Lopez is also a speaker and trainer,
speaking on subjects as diverse as terrorism and customer service. He created the civilian counter-terrorism
training program currently in use by New York City Transit and many other major
public transportation agencies around the country.
As
well as writing, Mr. Lopez is an artist and photographer, having sold several
of his works over the years. As a writer
he’s sold articles to Railway Age magazine, The Daily News magazine, Homeland
Defense Journal, and Reptile & Amphibian magazine; scripts to Little Archie
and Personality Comics; and short stories to Neo-Opsis magazine, Lost Souls
e-zine, Nth Online magazine, Blood Moon magazine, and various other Sci-Fi
and/or horror newsletters and fanzines.
He was also editor of Offworld, a small science fiction magazine that
was once chosen as a "Best Bet" by Sci-Fi television. Chickenhawk is his first novel.
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