Words Kill
Written by David Myles Robinson
Narrated by David Doersch
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About this audiobook
Famed reporter Russell Blaze is dead. It appears to be an accident, but after Russ’s funeral, his son, Cody, finds a letter in which his father explains that the death may have been murder. It directs Cody to Russ’s unfinished memoir for clues as to what may have happened. The opening words are: On the night of October 26, 1968, I uttered a sentence that would haunt me for the rest of my life. The sentence was, “Someone should kill that motherfucker.”
As Cody delves into the memoir, a window opens into a tragic past and thrusts the still-burning embers of another time’s radical violence into the political reality of the present. History that once seemed far away become a deeply personal immersion for Cody into the storied heyday of the Haight: drugs, sex, war protesters, right-wing militias, ground-breaking journalism—and the mysterious Gloria, who wanders into his father’s pad one day to just “crash here for a while until things calm down.”
Cody discovers aspects of his father’s life he never knew, and slowly begins to understand the significance of those words his father spoke in 1968.
Words Kill is a story of loss, violence, and racism; love, hate, and discovery. It is a story of then . . . and now.
David Myles Robinson
David Myles Robinson was born in Los Angeles and attended college in California and Hawaii, obtaining his J.D. in 1975 from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he met his wife, Marcia Waldorf. After moving to Hawaii, he became a trial attorney, specializing in personal injury and workers’ compensation law, and Waldorf joined the Public Defender’s Office before being appointed as a judge. She retired from the bench in 2006, and Robinson retired from private practice in 2010. He completed his first novel, a precursor to Tropical Lies, about twenty years ago but says it was so s
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