About Blood and Bombay Black By L.A.Nolan:
Alex Crossman is back in the saddle in this fast-paced thriller that delves deep into the world of motorcycle clubs, brotherhood, and betrayal.
After the Iron Horses slipped through the NCB’s fingers in Blood & Brown Sugar, Sandeep Bohla has a serious axe to grind with the club and its members. While under immense pressure from his superiors, he launches a rogue operation to end their drug trade in India permanently. The Fallen Angels, also bent on revenge, have implemented a plan to infiltrate the Horses using a sultry fem fatale and crumble them from within. A new club in Mumbai, looking to carve out a piece of the Horses’ hashish trade, is also unwittingly drawn into the tempest igniting the powder keg and exposing a rat at the Horses’ table. Can the Iron Horses weather the storm or is the final curtain being drawn on the club forever?
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Author Bio:
Award winning author L.A. Nolan was born in Toronto, making him the first Canadian-born member of his family, whose roots are set firmly in Liverpool, England.
Throughout his life, Nolan’s restlessness encouraged relentless travel to many countries, and in 2012, he finally settled in India.
Motorcycling became the primary focus. He joined a club and crisscrossed the country with reckless abandon, several times. He dabbled in acting and landed a few small roles in Bollywood productions such as Aiyaary, alongside Sidharth Malhotra, and, Bose – Dead or Alive, with Sanjay Gurbaxani and for many years, he was also the frontman of a successful rock and roll band playing the club circuit in New Delhi. Then, after breaking several bones on a desolate mountainside during a motorcycle ride, Nolan focused solely on his true passion for storytelling.
He released Memoirs of a Motorcycle Madman in 2018, a humorous collection of his motorcycle blogs that detailed his years travelling the country.
In October of 2021, Lee released his debut crime thriller fiction novel, Blood & Brown Sugar. It was voted Best Fiction Novel 2021 by Literary Voice Magazine and awarded Best Crime Thriller 2021 by the SRG Lit Awards. Lee was also recognised by Ukiyoto publishing house as 2021’s up-and-coming fiction author. The novel was optioned for a movie by Sanjay Gupta’s White Feather Films and is currently being translated by Rajhans Prakashan Publishing House for a re-release in Marathi.
His most recent work, A Crate of Rags & Bones, a collection of macabre short stories, launched in December of 2022 and was praised by Neil D’Silva as being an un-put-downable read, and destined for the Indian bestseller list.
The much anticipated sequel to Blood & Brown Sugar, Blood & Bombay Black, launched in January of 2024 to stellar reviews.
Lee has also contributed six short stories to various Anthologies compiled by The Chrysanthemum Cornicles, The Creative Circle and Wrimo-India, whose collection will be aboard an upcoming moon lander and left on the moon for future generations, or aliens, to read.
Nolan lives in Bombay with his wife, a sarcastic beagle named Sweeney Todd, and two very naughty motorcycles, Wilhelmina and Elvira.