Publisher's Synopsis
Chicago...
In the capable hands of Edgar Award nominee Vern E. Smith, author of the acclaimed crime classic The Jones Men, America's domestic terrorism threat unfolds in a pulse-pounding narrative as Chicago PD Special Homicide Unit Detective Emerson Dawes probes the shooting of a beloved NFL star by a white police officer. The search for the truth as tensions in the city grow morphs into an international conspiracy that threatens not only Dawes's life but the lives of his wife and son.
With time running out, Dawes must forge an uneasy alliance with an FBI agent in a race to prevent more acts of terror. Meanwhile, a mysterious foreign spy stalks Chicago, watching the fuse tick down on a human time bomb. GHOST SKINS leaps forward like an uncoiled snake, gripping the reader through the twists and turns of a master storyteller. Winner of the Outstanding Book Award at the Authors Showcase of the 2024 National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Chicago in August..
