Book description
The first assignment is unusual. The second will set D Hunter in urgent
pursuit of a mysterious entity that is kidnapping Top Forty hitmakers.
Always cloaked in the color black, security specialist D Hunter lives on
the periphery of the monied Manhattan nightlife. But he's the man people
come to when they need help without the interference of the NYPD. When a
rising singer called Night is kidnapped, music manager Ivy Greenwich
hires D Hunter to deliver the ransom. Mission is accomplished, but
Greenwich isn't finished with Hunter. Greenwich has devised a
tried-and-true plan to transform Bridgette Haze's mega-pop-star image
from the tween-bubblegum-pop genre to an edgier urban one: bring her to
New York City where she can be seen at the right night spots and work
with leading hip-hop producers. But the recent near tragedy with Night
convinces him that she'll need extra protection. D isn't really in the
bodyguard business anymore, but he needs the money. So he reluctantly
agrees, never expecting he'll need to fight both a surprising sexual
attraction to Haze and the determination of one who is seeking revenge
for betrayals of the past. Set in the hip-hop clubs and shrouded secret
hearts of New York City, The Accidental Hunter is a page-turning
adventure. Tananarive Due, author of
The Good House
Night Work
is an engrossing ride through New York's underbelly of sex, music,
drugs, and dreams-for-hire. Nelson George creates dead-on characters in
a world of hustlers, pimps, models, and dream-makers, a suspenseful
blend of seaminess and simple humanity. You won't want to stop reading
until long past night. Nelson George is the author of several
non-fiction books, including THE DEATH OF RHYTHM AND BLUES and HIP HOP
AMERICA, both nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards, and two
novels URBAN ROMANCE, an Essence Blackboard bestseller, and SEDUCED. An
award-winning journalist, he is also an accomplished screenwriter and an
Emmy Award winning producer. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
