New York City’s Police Chief, Robert Matson, reflects on his first murder case when, as a newly discharged Korean War veteran, he returns home to Harlem to find a color line blocking his admission to the police academy. Matson takes interim work as a janitor, but his skills in the military police come to light when Bumpy Johnson, Harlem’s unofficial mayor, pimp, and drug czar, seeks Matson’s help tracking down the killer of his prostitutes, while city officials turn a blind eye.
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Author Bio:
Pablo Zaragoza, originally from Havana, Cuba, immigrated to the United States when he was four years old. He grew up in Hialeah, Florida, graduated high school there, and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Florida. He went on to attend medical school, became a pathologist, and retired after 30 years.
Pablo has been an avid reader since childhood and after retiring from medicine, he pursued his passion of writing. Since June 2017, he has written and published over seventeen novels. Animal Court, published in 2019, won a Reader’s Favorite Award.