THE DEVIL'S MAMBO Nicholas Esperanza couldn't believe his luck. A winning $30 million lotto ticket took him out of NYPD Homicide and bought him Sueño Latino, a popular salsa club on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Dancing, drinking, partying, women--every day was a good day. The nights with his girlfriend, Legs, are even hotter. But now, Legs needs Esperanza to do her a solid: find her missing 14-year-old niece, Alina. With that, Esperanza's luck is about to change. Before he knows it, Esperanza's plunged into a dangerous sexual underground of S&M clubs, fetishists, pornography, and murder. Anything can be bought and sold, especially innocence. The most beautiful faces mask the most vicious predators. As the quest gets more personal, and the lines between good and evil blur, Esperanza spirals into the darkest recesses of his soul, to places he never wanted to see. He's in so deep that turning back is not an option. With THE DEVIL'S MAMBO, Jerry A. Rodriguez delivers a gritty, wholly original urban noir--an adrenaline-charged, erotic thriller that's as twisted as it is addictive. (Book 1 in the Nicholas Esperanza series) Rights Information Publisher: Kensington, Paperback (May 1, 2007) Territory: World Rights Available: Film/TV Reviews: "The language in the novel is frank...the story is well plotted and the characters, especially Esperanza, are well drawn... it packs the punch and entertaining edge of the pulps." - Booklist Blurbs: "Debut novelist Jerry A. Rodriguez holds no punches, doesn't flinch, and comes through with a knockout performance." - Jason Starr "Wonderful, dark, dark stuff…scared the hell out of me. Noir has a new name...Rodriguez.” - Ken Bruen "Better fortify yourself with a blast of the hard stuff, check your clip and keep your radar on sweep when you follow Nick Esperanza on his descent into the artfully portrayed dark and dank and seamy underbelly of the big, bad city in Jerry A. Rodriguez's The Devil’s Mambo." - Gary Phillips Purchase at Amazon.com

THE DEVIL'S MAMBO

Nicholas Esperanza couldn't believe his luck. A winning $30 million lotto ticket took him out of NYPD Homicide and bought him Sueño Latino, a popular salsa club on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Dancing, drinking, partying, women--every day was a good day. The nights with his girlfriend, Legs, are even hotter. But now, Legs needs Esperanza to do her a solid: find her missing 14-year-old niece, Alina. With that, Esperanza's luck is about to change.

Before he knows it, Esperanza's plunged into a dangerous sexual underground of S&M clubs, fetishists, pornography, and murder. Anything can be bought and sold, especially innocence. The most beautiful faces mask the most vicious predators. As the quest gets more personal, and the lines between good and evil blur, Esperanza spirals into the darkest recesses of his soul, to places he never wanted to see. He's in so deep that turning back is not an option.

With THE DEVIL'S MAMBO, Jerry A. Rodriguez delivers a gritty, wholly original urban noir--an adrenaline-charged, erotic thriller that's as twisted as it is addictive.

(Book 1 in the Nicholas Esperanza series)

Rights Information

Publisher: Kensington, Paperback (May 1, 2007)

Territory: World

Rights Available: Film/TV

Reviews:
"The language in the novel is frank...the story is well plotted and the characters, especially Esperanza, are well drawn... it packs the punch and entertaining edge of the pulps." - Booklist

Blurbs:
"Debut novelist Jerry A. Rodriguez holds no punches, doesn't flinch, and comes through with a knockout performance." - Jason Starr

"Wonderful, dark, dark stuff…scared the hell out of me. Noir has a new name...Rodriguez.” - Ken Bruen

"Better fortify yourself with a blast of the hard stuff, check your clip and keep your radar on sweep when you follow Nick Esperanza on his descent into the artfully portrayed dark and dank and seamy underbelly of the big, bad city in Jerry A. Rodriguez's The Devil’s Mambo." - Gary Phillips

Purchase at Amazon.com