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How Town

How Town

by Michael Nava

1990FictionTrials (Murder)Gay menChildren in pornographyAttorney and client
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Open Library
Open Library

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Lawyer/sleuth Henry Rios risks his life to defend an unsavory client against a murder charge in a sensational case that has many hidden--and deadly--undercurrents.

Themes & subjects

FictionTrials (Murder)Gay menChildren in pornographyAttorney and clientCrimes against
First published 1990

Setting

Los Angeles (Calif.)

About the author

Michael Nava
Michael Nava

16 September 1954

Michael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of eight novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios who Garth Greenwell, writing in The New Yorker, called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” The New York Times Book Review has called Nava “one of our best” writers. He is also the author of a historical novel, The City of Palaces, set in Mexico at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican revolution, the first of a projected trilogy.

Author

Michael Nava

First published

1990

Pages

244

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

9

Language

English

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

ISBN

9781480401761

Where to buy

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