Bøger af Alex Segura

"First published in 2013 by Codorus Press."--Title page verso.

The Dusk is a reimagining of the superhero vigilante from a grounded, socially conscious perspective. Morally complex and humorous, the series features a flawed hero: Jaime Nuñez, who fights a never-ending battle for the soul of Blackstone City.Down below the abandoned skyscrapers and crumbling colonial architecture, beneath the buzzing lights and ragged billboards, is a fading, floundering city propped up by vice, extortion, and fear. This is BLACKSTONE—a dark, mirror image of Boston or Philadelphia. A city whose history dates back to the earliest days of our nation. A once-mighty industrial titan—now teetering on the edge of oblivion. A city that used to mean something. Blackstone public defender Jaime Nuñez—former baseball hero, now a divorced dad to a precocious teen—is always trying to do his best. But the criminal justice system is not without limits. When Jaime comes into an unexpected fortune and some surprising, super heroic tools, he discovers there might be another, more direct way to do some actual good in the world. But can the masked man known only as The Dusk push back against decades of entrenched corruption without compromising his commitment to social justice...

1927. New York. The peak of Prohibition. Hazel Crenshaw just wants to be left alone, to tend to her farm, to care for her younger sister, and to run her business. But her business is inescapably tangled up with the New York gangs that will eventually coalesce into the mafia, and a new, unknown partner. When the Crenshaw farm is attacked, Hazel must not only defend her home, she must cope with the realization that her flirtation with the other side of the law might also put her in the crosshairs of something else--something much more sinister...

"Arñaa. It means spider -- and it also means Anya Corazon. She was a normal Brooklyn teenager with normal Brooklyn problems -- until a few months ago, when she was gifted with amazing spiderlike abilities, from super-strength and heightened agility to web-slinging. A powerful mentor guided her on how best to use these new powers for good -- until Anya lost him, just as she lost her mother, just as she's about to lose everything she knows. Nueva York. It is the future of New York City, the home of the Spider-Man of 2099, and where Anya finds herself stranded, tossed across the century. And Nueva York's Spider-Man, billionaire CEO Miguel O'Hara, is Arñaa's only hope of getting home. But Arñaa and Spider-Man are about to discover that the enemies they face have dark and powerful connections to both heroes--and that this unlikely team across time will need to save much more than each other. . . ."--

"Six months after the events of the first arc we find Lara in a different spot: sober and focused on her job at The Creighton Courier covering the increasingly corrupt CCPD. But that's all about to change. A letter from a dead man, Marco Nava--the original Black Ghost and her brother Tomas's best friend--derails Lara's plans, and sends her sprinting down a rabbit hole to find out more about the man who wore the Black Ghost mask before he was gunned down--and the final case he was working on: the downfall of Creighton's corrupt police commissioner. And, as the bodies begin to pile up, Lara is forced to don the mask and hood once more just in time to face off against a deadly and silent female mob assassin named Harrow"--

From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books.It's 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn't care. She's an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn't have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn't matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book.That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, which they call "e;The Lethal Lynx,"e; Triumph's first female hero. But her colleague is acting strangely and asking to keep her involvement a secret. And then he's found dead, with all of their scripts turned into the publisher without her name. Carmen is desperate to piece together what happened to him, to hang on to her piece of the Lynx, which turns out to be a runaway hit. But that's complicated by a surprise visitor from her home in Miami, a tenacious cop who is piecing everything together too quickly for Carmen, and the tangled web of secrets and resentments among the passionate eccentrics who write comics for a living.Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel--hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous, and utterly absorbing.

The new book in Alex Segura's Pete Fernandez series, in which a cold case brings Pete back home, where he ends up in the crosshairs of a fanatical and dangerous cult leader, threatening his newfound sobriety and his life as well.

A year after Pete Fernandez's brush with death, an aging Cuban mobster asks the Miami PI to find out who killed his drug-addicted son and to locate his missing daughter-in-law. Pete soon discovers that the son's death might tie into the people that almost ended Pete's life.

"e;DOWN THE DARKEST STREET is classic PI fiction in the best sense. Riveting."e; -Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of SUNBURNPETE FERNANDEZ SHOULD BE DEAD.His life professional and personal is in ruins. His best friend is dead. His newspaper career is past tense. His ex is staying with him as her own marriage crumbles. On top of that, the former journalist finds himself in the eye of a dangerous storm; investigating a missing girl with an unexpected partner and inching closer and closer to a vicious, calculating killer cutting a swath of blood across Miami while at the same time battling his own personal demons that refuse to be silenced.DOWN THE DARKEST STREET, the riveting sequel to Alex Seguras acclaimed debut, SILENT CITY, tells a tale of redemption, survival and the sordid backstreets of Miami while asking the question that many are too scared to answer: When faced with pure darkness, would you fold or fight?