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Books by Cliff
Chandler
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The Paragons
A Novel by Cliff Chandler
Reviews
Today's
politicians struggle with each other's character daily in
pursuit of high office. Novelist Cliff Chandler takes a
different view, as he sees it, a real-world view. The Paragons
his new novel is a tantalizing trip through the real world, a
world, in which he pulls no punches. As Cliff says, " This
isn't about morality. This is about surviving by any means
necessary. This struggle is not new to America; the problem
arises because a different class of people is subscribing to the
" American Dream." During the thirties the mother load
was whiskey today it is narcotics. A large segment of our
society is involved in this chase.
The Paragons
identifies
them.
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If you are looking for a crime story, look no further.
Cliff Chandler's debut Novel
The Paragons is
escapist entertainment of the highest order. Mr. Chandler
navigates you through a complex game played by those with money
and power, a best seller for sure.
--Roy
Glenn author of "Is It A Crime"
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With the release of
The Paragons
first time
author Cliff Chandler has emerged full force in the literary
world.
The Paragons is a suspenseful, thrilling page-turner. He
kept me on the edge of my seat with a creation of characters
that stood up on each page. Mr. Chandler definitely has a gift
for projecting realization.
--Atlanta's
Elite Book Club
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Cliff Chandler's
The Paragons was chalked full of mystery
and excitement, with a flare for the big screen. Main Character,
Vic Morgan is no nonsense Police Detective who draws you in and
takes you hostage until the very end.
--
Raven Styles,
author
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The Paragons will knock your sock off.
Cliff
Chandler writes as well as Raymond Chandler. Sex, drugs,
violence, corruption in the highest places and fantastic
detective work. Detective Vic Morgan is suave, tough and brutal.
He gets the job done. Don't miss this book. It's a winner.
--R.Cummings,
Author
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When
Elizabeth Crainsworth was found murdered in a Bronx apartment,
no one could believe she had any connection to the drug scene.
Her mother spent a year as a recluse, and her father finally
tapped the Mayor for help in solving the murder. He gives
the Mayor a package that cost the private investigator
Crainsworth had hired to solve the case his life. The Mayor
tapped Ben Chapman, Police Commissioner, to provide the best he
has, who happens to be Lieutenant Vic Morgan. Morgan has
been "desked" since an unfortunate incident that made
for some bad press. Morgan picks Jess Norman as his
partner, and the ride begins. Chandler patiently builds
layer of intrigue, interspersing plenty of action and
ruthlessness along the way. His pictorial descriptions of the
Bronx and Manhattan are breathtaking, as is his depiction of the
utter corruption that the drug world produces. Chandler produces
a page-turner that exposes the dark side of our society; drugs
and prostitution, as the easy money/quick death trip that it is.
--THE
MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW, March 2001
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Macon,
Georgia author Cliff Chandler has written a tale of murder and
revenge in his first novel The Paragons. It is filled with
scenes that are reminiscent of Hammett and Spillane, but yet
have a modem touch that brings in Diehl and Connelly. It is a
blend of these famous authors but still a book that is uniquely
his own. The book is raw and gutsy, violent and explosive.
It has its ups and its downs as it moves from incident to
incident; from rage to rage, from clue to clue until
finally the murderer is discovered and justice is handed out in
the proper ratio. If you are a fan of crime fiction, this is a
good book for you. Cliff Chandler has had this book inside of
him for some time and the sequel is already waiting in the
wings. In it the main characters of this story will return.
--Jakie
K. Cooper Book & Movie Critic WGMT Channel 41 NBC
Network. Macon, GA
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How
far up is the bottom of crime? November 10, 2002
Cliff
Chandler's first book,
The Paragons
is an excellent
example of what a crime story should be. It contains plenty of
mystery and enough twists and turns in the plot to keep the book
interesting. The story opens immediately following the
mysterious death of Elizabeth Crainsworth. Since there were no
immediate suspects for murder, Elizabeth's wealthy father Ellis
Crainsworth hires an investigator to look into the crime in an
effort to find some answers and gain some closure. As a result
of the investigation, Ellis obtains some critical evidence.
Eventually this evidence is shared with the police and an elite
police squad headed up by maverick cop Vic Morgan is formed to
further investigate the crime. Thus the roller coaster ride of a
mystery begins, featuring sex, drugs, small time hustlers and
the seemingly untouchable elite.
Chandler
deftly explores issues of class, while keeping the reader
engrossed in a hard hitting yet true to life plot about the
impact of drugs in American society and the true roots of the
drug problem in America. He cleverly demonstrates that criminals
come in all shapes, sizes and social backgrounds and that
sometimes the most dangerous criminals are the ones that never
make the news because of their high powered connections. This is
a multi-layered story, not the kind of mystery where you can
skip to the end and discover all the answers. As Detective Vic
Morgan and his team discover the answers to some questions, new
questions emerge until the book reaches its final explosive
ending. With interesting characters and a high paced plot, The
Paragons is a crime story that should not be missed.
The Paragons
sells for $14.95 /
July 11, 2000 * Brittney Press Publishing Decatur, GA 30034
/ 342 pages
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky
surveys the dangers and prospects of our
early twenty-first century. Exploring
challenges such as the growing gap
between North and South, American
exceptionalism (including under
President Barack Obama), the fiascos of
Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli
assault on Gaza, and the recent
financial bailouts, he also sees hope
for the future and a way to move
forward—in the democratic wave in Latin
America and in the global solidarity
movements that suggest "real progress
toward freedom and justice." Hopes and
Prospects is essential reading for
anyone who is concerned about the
primary challenges still facing the
human race. "This is a classic Chomsky
work: a bonfire of myths and lies,
sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky
is an enduring inspiration all over the
world—to millions, I suspect—for the
simple reason that he is a truth-teller
on an epic scale. I salute him." —John
Pilger
In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of
American empire and class domination, at
home and abroad, Chomsky continues a
longstanding and crucial work of
elucidation and activism . . .the
writing remains unswervingly rational
and principled throughout, and lends
bracing impetus to the real alternatives
before us.—Publisher's
Weekly
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