Book review: August Snow back for third worthy thriller C.F. Foster Dead of Winter
Soho Press, 294 pages, $27.95
Overwhelmed by the heat? Stephen Mack Jones’ latest “August Snow” adventure should help remind you how miserable you can be when it is bitterly cold. “Dead of Winter,” the third novel featuring Detroit ex-cop and Mexicantown neighborhood native August Octavio Snow takes place in the middle of a frigid, snow-filled Detroit winter.
After being forced off the police force, the ex-marine won a $12 million wrongful termination lawsuit and now has become a philanthropist of sorts. The son of an African-American father and a Mexican-American mother (he calls himself a Blaxican), Snow has moved back to the same house he grew up in. He attends a business meeting at Authentico Foods, a maker of Mexican food items and the neighborhoods largest employer (Snow’s mother was a long-time employee).
by Alan Stamm Fictional characters resemblances to actual people aren t always purely coincidental, of course. The it s-all-made-up disclaimer before Page 1 is a legal shield, not a barrier that keeps authors from writing what they know. And popular novelist Stephen Mack Jones of Farmington Hills certainly knows a real-life Detroit billionaire who s distinctly like a pivotal figure in Dead of Winter, his newly published third book in a series about private investigator August Snow.
Stephen Mack Jones, author of three novels about a biracial former Detroit cop
(Photo: Twitter) The supposedly made-up character is introduced in Chapter 2 on Page 11 as Detroit s resident billionaire, Vic Bronson, a man who d made his fortune selling mortgages. The setup continues:
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