What does an action movie one-hit-wonder and ex-drug-addict do when he's cleaned up, down on his luck, and running out of money? In the three years since Jack Palms went clean-no drugs, no drinking, no life-he's added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone can ask him. Now, when an old friend from L.A. calls, he hits the streets of San Francisco to help a group of Czech drug buyers make one big score, a single drug deal that he hopes will set him up for life. But, when people start turning up dead, and an old nemesis on the police force calls, Jack finds himself with just 24 hours to track down San Francisco's biggest drug supplier or face charges that will put him behind bars. Only an Oscar-caliber performance will get him through this alive.
Seth Harwood holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa, Stanford, UMass Boston, and at the City College of San Francisco. His fiction has appeared in over a dozen literary and crime/noir journals. In July, 2006, he became the first crime author to serialize his work as a podcast-only novel, when he started posting weekly free episodes of JACK WAKES UP. Three Rivers Press released JACK WAKES UP as a print novel on May 5th, 2009.
Seth has now podcast three novels in the Jack Palms Crime series and a fourth novel at his website, sethharwood.com, where you can download and listen to them all for free. He also hosts the online series of crime story podcasts at CrimeWAV.com, which features today's top authors in the genre.
His email address is seth (at) sethharwood (dot) com
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