“Easy comparisons can be made to Dave Robicheaux, Spenser, and Easy Rawlins, but Smokey is his own man. Women want to be near him and cook his dinner as he settles his nerves with three fingers of Scotch. A great read for fans of detectives guarding an inner city’s grimy streets.”
—Library Journal
“Dalton’s hard won small victory vividly illustrates a turbulent period of our recent cultural history.”
—Publishers Weekly
“... a gripping read that drags us deeper into [Smokey] Dalton’s uneasy world.”
—Entertainment Weekly on War at Home
“Rusch has proven many times over that she’s a gifted world-builder, whether the world is the highly dangerous, racist America of 1970 (ripped from the real pages of archival newspapers), or a far future in which people not only live on the Moon, but negotiate professional lives with any number of alien species . . .”
—Entertainment Books
By Killian Melloy