Mann of War Paperback - 2013

Robert Mann is sick of hearing about criminals who get away with murder. He's sick of rapists, drug dealers, and con men. He's sick of the human trash - people who know how to use the system against itself. He's sick of sitting idly by and doing nothing. So Robert Mann is going to fight back. The problem -- there's a difference between wanting to kill someone and actually doing it. Review Blurbs: ..".His characters are beautifully rendered, real and true, at once vulnerable and courageous. Wise and insightful, Brantingham's work brilliantly captures the light and darkness in us all." --James Brown "John Brantingham is one of the brightest stars emerging from a generation of authors...His capacious human sympathies, which do not exclude a keen sense of humor, elevate and deepen his work to layers beyond the merely entertaining. Prepare to be both educated and enthralled." -Gerald Locklin ..".the book that the illegitimate son of Robert Parker and James Ellroy might have had in a parallel universe. Brantingham's clipped, tough-guy prose is possessed of a hard-boiled rhythm that approaches a kind of poetry, and his first-class dialogue, which is at turns witty, cruel, and wise, immediately places Brantingham onto the short list of great contemporary crime writers." -Paul Kareem Tayyar, Author of "In the Footsteps of the Silver King" and "Postmark Atlantis" About the Author: John Brantingham's other books include East of Los Angeles and Let Us All Pray Now to Our Own Strange Gods. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines in England and the United States and on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He teaches English at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut where he lives with his wife Annie.