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Mintwood Place is a delightfully fresh version of the noir tradition, offering the reader a contemporary ""Casablanca"" in Washington, DC. The book's narrator, Renaissance man Joe Green, has plenty to say about love, politics and the male psyche in this page-turning romantic suspense. Joe runs a bookstore and a bistro and painfully navigates a modern divorce while the Senate Intelligence Committee investigates his relationship with Cosmo, a protégé who has recently been paroled after serving five years in prison for the ambiguous killing of a local black youth. Green, a proud Jersey boy, can all at once relax by watching his tortoises, hand out liberal advice to his three teenagers, and pack serious heat. He is a twenty-first-century American male, if ever there was one.

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Bob Gilbert was raised in Ocean County, New Jersey, but moved to Washington, DC, to attend American University. He worked several political jobs in the nation's capital before moving to Minnesota in 1984 to manage a congressional campaign in Minnesota's 8th district which includes Duluth and the Iron Range. Instead of returning to Washington he remained in Minnesota where he worked as a waiter and a newspaper reporter. He returned to DC in 2011. An avid scholar, he loves the used bookstores of Washington and the Twin Cities. He's also a backpacker, who's led over a dozen trips for the Sierra Club to the mountain ranges of the far west. He's also trekked the Himalayas in Nepal.

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