Hit man Paul Byrne never should have taken this job. Now, he’ll find out how much money his life is worth . . . In hindsight, hit man Paul Byrne, aka The Apostle, wishes he never expanded his services to include arson. But when a mysterious client offers him a cool two-hundred thou to torch a nightclub, he can’t say no. Now the club’s owners, Charlotte gang leader Isaiah Jaxon and former New York wiseguy Jack Vignali, want him to pay for the damages in blood. That is if Arson Detective John Lundell, a southern lawman nursing a broken heart, doesn’t catch him first. Just maybe The Apostle can turn to the woman he loves, Eve Bennett, for help. But when Eve meets John, their attraction is irresistible. And if the lonely detective falls for the hit man’s girlfriend, Lundell could be the one who gets burned. Pick up this page turner today! and “Vivid and exciting and fast-paced and layered and funny and compelling and moving, all at the same time. and ” — Award-Winning Author Patricia Powell Q and u0026A with Michael Santos Learn more about Michael’s crime thrillers in this Your style is a unique feature of your writing. What’s the idea behind it? My style is based on my characters’ rhythms of speech. I place every scene in the perspective of a character. The narration in each scene is in that person’s voice, not mine. In effect, the entire novel reads like dialogue. My own narrative voice is absent, which I think is great for immersion. It lets the reader be with the characters, without a writer in between them. My goal is to let the reader forget that they’re reading a novel at all. That’s my own favorite way to experience a story. Why set gritty crime novels in a sweet southern city like Charlotte, NC? I’m from there and I’ve seen it grow a lot over the years. It’s a wonderful place to live and visit. But it’s a big city now, with big city crime. In many ways, Charlotte is having a crisis of is it a sweet southern town or a major metropolitan center? How do you reconcile heritage and progress? And, as a crime fiction author, I’m curious to see how that struggle plays out on the mean streets, as traditional southern crime and national or even international crime meet. Charlotte is an untapped setting in this genre, with stories that nobody else is really telling. What interests you most as a creative? I always love learning more about law enforcement and crime. The subject matter of the genre is one of my main interests. From a craft perspective, the sound of the writing is important to me. I spend a lot of time on point of view, dialogue, and style. As a reader, I tend to gravitate toward writers who have a great ear for the spoken word, such as Elmore Leonard and George Higgins. When you’re working with casts of cops and crooks, the dialogue is a lot of fun to write. Which authors would you say have influenced you the most? Elmore Leonard, George Pelecanos, David Baldacci, George Higgins, and many more. All four have interesting styles and are excellent writers of dialogue. When I was a kid, Ian Fleming first got me hooked on reading with the James Bond novels. I started out writing spy political fiction in high school and then gravitated toward crime novels, where I found my niche. Honestly, I consider myself a fan of the crime genre first and a writer second, because I love finding great new books and authors. As a writer, I try to learn from every book I read.

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