“The Firm . . . on amphetamines.”
—Booklist
The Flack
Coming February 3rd
His final warning: Don’t take the job. Just run.
Curt Hinton and Angel Reddish are like a Hollywood buddy flick come to life: former college roommates turned lifelong best friends who always have each other’s backs. So when Angel offers Curt the chance to leave his job at a failing newspaper and take a lucrative position as head of corporate communications at Balco, the Bay Area Logistics Company, Curt takes the leap.
Nothing bad can happen with Angel at his side.
That illusion is shattered on Curt’s first day at Balco, when he learns that Angel was killed the night before during a carjacking. Tasked with writing a press release about the crime, Curt quickly discovers the carjacking wasn’t random—it was a targeted attack by professional killers.
Who would murder Angel? And why? The Oakland Police don’t have any answers. Neither does the FBI. As Curt is drawn into the mystery of his best friend’s death, he discovers there are many possible suspects—and that there’s a lot more danger swirling around his new employer than he could have ever imagined.
Praise for The Flack
“Brad Parks’s THE FLACK opens with a bang and hurtles forward like a bullet. An ordinary reporter is thrown to the corporate sharks when he accepts a too-good-to-be-true job offer. Murder, corruption, cover-ups—this Hitchcockian thriller kept me turning pages all night.”
—Julia Spencer-Fleming, NYTimes bestselling author of AT MIDNIGHT COMES THE CRY
“This blaze of a novel will likely strike readers as a spin—on amphetamines—of John Grisham’s 1991 effort, The Firm. . . Readers will catch themselves asking for a break. Sweaty palms here, an explosion there, a quiet scene advances the plot. This is major work.”
—Booklist
“Enjoy every bumpy moment.”
—Kirkus
“A gripping tale that will entertain readers and make them question the difficult realities of immigration, labor struggles, and the fractured ways people communicate in the 21st century.”
—Library Journal