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Salvation Boulevard

A novel

Larry Beinhart
September 2008     ISBN: 1568584113

From the Edgar Award-winning novelist and author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian comes a new mystery novel about a private investigator and a case that tests his courage, character and soul. The victim is an atheist professor, the main suspect—who has confessed and is in custody—a Muslim foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew and the detective a born-again Christian. The New York Times says of Beinhart, "The man can really write."

As P.I. Carl Van Wagener gets deeper and deeper into the investigation of the death of Professor Nathaniel MacLeod, his most basic beliefs and relationships are tried and his world is turned upside down.

Salvation Boulevard is a page-turning thriller in the tradition of John Grisham and Richard Condon that grapples with the ecstatic and entropic nature of religious faith in contemporary America.

What readers are saying

"...splendid religious legal thriller."
—starred review, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Larry Beinhart's Salvation Boulevard, like his Wag The Dog and The Librarian, is a wild ride indeed. Intelligent, provocative, often outrageous, it pits a tough ex-cop turned born-again PI against what only looks like innocence, covering a dark world of power and treachery and deceit. It will grip you, first page to last."
—Donald Westlake

"In Orwellian times, fiction is often the only way to get the truth out. We are approaching such times in the United States, and Larry Beinhart masterfully alerts us to what depths our government has sunk. Salvation Boulevard is a quick paced and heart wrenching call to arms against the excesses our government has foisted upon 'we the people.'"
—Ambassador Joseph Wilson

About the Authors

Larry Beinhart is an award-winning novelist who lives in Woodstock, New York. He is the author of Wag the Dog and last year's acclaimed novel The Librarian. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. He was the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University. He is a regularly featured blogger on The Huffington Post. He currently lives in Woodstock, New York with his wife and two children.

Click hereto read an interview with Larry Beinhart on Buzzflash.com.
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