Thomas Laird’s 'war crime' novel DESERT STORM HEART (A Novel of Chicago Streets) publishing soon!

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - June 1, 2013 - PRLog -- Thomas Laird’s sixth novel Desert Storm Heart (326 pp and $15.95) is released on June 28, 2013 by Parkgate Press / Dionysus Books. (Available on BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon worldwide.)

Will Koehn, an NCIS investigator, looks into the slayings but never locates the killer. Later, he returns to the United States and subsequently becomes a Homicide detective for the Chicago Police Department. Soon more murders and rapes occur in Chicago, and the killer’s MO matches that of the girls murdered in Kuwait. The killer has followed Will home.

Thomas Palakeel, Professor of English at Bradley University, says:

“Desert Storm Heart leaps out of the Conradian darkness of the Gulf War after a gore-thirsty Marine brings his murderous rage back home to America’s heartland. When he meets his match in the Chicago detective Will Koehn, a fellow Marine, a battle of wits commences in private and public. Laird offers a brilliant psychological portrait of a depraved, driven murderer and his enlightened pursuer.”

James Manlow, author of Attraction, says:

“Encountering a particularly nasty villain (or three), in Desert Storm Heart we’re hooked by the mystery—and the cruelty—of those who wield power, but mostly by our own curiosity for Detective Will Koehn’s lifestyle. How can a man with a healthy disrespect for the bad guys manage his own life so badly? Does he want a family, and to straighten out his ‘woman trouble,’ or does he just want to put a bullet in the bad guy’s back?”

Thomas Laird has published five novels: Cutter (2001), Season of the Assassin (2003), Black Dog (2004), Voices of the Dead (2006), and The Underground Detective (2012). The books received favorable reviews from the Washington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, The Independent on Sunday (UK) and Crime Time (UK). Thomas Laird lives with his wife near Germantown Hills, Illinois.

ISBN 978-1-937056-64-3

To place orders for Desert Storm Heart, contact:

Parkgate Press / Dionysus Books
7796 Marshall Heights Court
Falls Church, Virginia 22043
Email: orders@parkgatepress.com
Website: http://www.parkgatepress.com

To arrange a book signing or interview, contact Matthew Fullerty at editor@parkgatepress.com.