Burning Midnight: An Amos Walker Novel

Written by Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by Peter Larkin

In Burning Midnight, master of the hard-boiled detective novel Loren D. Estleman gives listeners a hot new Amos Walker mystery.Amos Walker knows Detroit, from the highest to the lowest, and that includes the gangs of Mexicantown. When a friend asks Walker to get his son's brother-in-law out of one of two feuding gangs, Walker gets in trouble fast. First, dead bodies start to pile up; then come suspicious fires and the bottle bombs. Walker is caught in the middle of a gang war.

Whether or not a middle-aged gringo like him can cool things off between the Maldados and the Zapatistas, he's got to try; he did promise his friend. Once he gets involved, he realizes there's something else going on; the specter of an international conspiracy threatens to make this local trouble blow sky-high. And if he ends up dead or in jail for murders he didn't commit, he might have to put that promise on hold. It's tough being Amos Walker.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Jul 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781427229922

Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman is the author of more than eighty novels, including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. The winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, and three Western Heritage Awards, he lives in Central Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.

Reviews for Burning Midnight

[dickmanikowski · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I'm a big fan of Loren Estleman, the Western and Detroit crime fiction author who's been unjustly overshadowed by Elmore Leonard. Unfortunately, this latest novel isn't up to Estleman's standards.Perhaps I'm judging the book too harshly. But the characters seem somewhat stilted and portions of the plot too contrived.