DOS ANGELES
by Michael O'Hara
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GENRE:
Mystery
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BLURB:
Dos
Angeles, the first in a franchise of mysteries featuring Paco Moran, puts the
multicultural thirty-something ex-LAPD homicide detective turned reluctant
private eye on the trail of a beautiful young Latina on the run with ten
million dollars in cash. Half Anglo and half Mexican, Moran is a transitional
character equally at home working in Beverly Hills or blue collar Boyle
Heights, the tough East Los Angeles neighborhood where he was raised by a
single mom. In his debut case Paco quickly learns he will be the fall guy if he
doesn't track down the young immigrant who allegedly stole a small fortune from
a sleazy Hollywood producer secretly laundering money for a notorious drug cartel.
Paco's frantic search takes him on a roller-coaster ride through a shadowy
place he calls Dos Angeles a city within the city and a virtual country unto
itself.
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Excerpt:
Shining her light through the opening she saw what appeared
to be a fully equipped home office. It had a desk with a computer, a printer, a
multi-line phone system and custom-built shelving holding an array of accordion
files and cardboard storage boxes. On entering she found an illuminated light
switch she quickly turned on.
With the room now brightly lit by a series of overhead spots,
the first thing she noticed was one of the storage boxes had fallen off a shelf
and it was lying face down on the carpeted floor. Alongside it was a banded
stack of dollar bills. Turning over the box Maria was shocked to see it was
filled with more wrapped bundles of cash. But the bills weren’t ones—they were
all hundred dollar Benjamins.
Almost tripping in her haste to see what was in the other
boxes, she took another down, placed it on the floor and quickly removed its
fitted lid. It, too, was filled with packets of hundred dollar bills. Like a
pirate sifting through a chest of precious Spanish doubloons, she quickly
determined there was close to a hundred thousand dollars in just that one box.
It had to be a sign, she told herself. She had suffered and
endured so much over the last two months. There had been days when she didn’t
know if she even had the inner strength to carry on. Now—with this amazing
stroke of good fortune—she finally had some hope again.
But first she would have to get all of the money out of the
house.
And once she did… where in the world would she go?
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Emmy nominee
Michael O’Hara-- who has written and produced some of the highest-rated
television movies and miniseries in recent memory – is adding author to his
resume with the August, 2015 the publication of his first novel, Dos Angeles.
The book,
featuring a bilingual and bicultural private eye named Paco Moran, centers
around Moran’s desperate search for a beautiful young Latina immigrant who
stole ten million dollars from the mob. In a pre-publication review American
Book Award winner Peter Quinn said: Paco Moran’s debut in Michael O'Hara's Dos
Angeles is fast-paced, finely crafted, and full of surprises. It's noir fiction
for the 21st century, a helluva ride from the first page to last. Here's hoping
O'Hara brings Paco back very soon. I can't wait!
A former
award-winning journalist and NBC Vice President of Media Relations, O’Hara made
an auspicious debut as a writer/producer with “Those She Left Behind,” a
critically acclaimed family drama that continues to be the highest-rated TV
movie (25.1/38 share) on any network in over twenty years. It starred Gary Cole
and Colleen Dewhurst (who won an Emmy Award for her performance). That success
was followed by the widely praised NBC movie “She Said No” which won an
American Women in Radio & Television Award for Best Television Dramatic
Special.
O’Hara next
wrote and executive produced “Switched at Birth,” the blockbuster NBC
miniseries that earned an Emmy nomination as Best Dramatic Special and remains
the highest rated (22 rating/33 share) miniseries on network television since
its initial telecast over two decades ago. He was also the writer and executive
producer of “Murder in the Heartland,” a celebrated ABC miniseries which
garnered a Casting Society of America Award and two Emmy nominations. Right
after that he created and executive produced the first of 22 “Moment of Truth”
movies for NBC, establishing one of the most successful film franchises in TV
history.
O’Hara also
wrote “She Woke Up Pregnant,” the pilot for ABC’s ‘Crimes of Passion’
franchise. It scored an impressive 13.4 rating and 21 share, making it the
highest-rated ABC movie of the year. He went on to write “One Hot Summer Night,”
another ‘Crimes of Passion’ thriller that was ABC’s highest-rated Thursday
night movie of the season. Other producing credits include two CBS projects:
“Twilight Zone – Rod Serling’s Lost Classics” and “A Child’s Wish,” which was
filmed in the Oval Office and featured a cameo appearance by then President
Bill Clinton. In addition he wrote and executive produced NBC’s “In His Life:
The John Lennon Story” and “1st to Die,” a two-part NBC miniseries based on the
best-selling novel by James Patterson.
Overall O’Hara
has produced four miniseries and 33 Movies of the Week. Besides his Emmy
nomination, other honors include: a Christopher Award (“A Child’s Wish”); a
Prism Award (“The Accident”); a Humanitas Award nomination (“Heart of a
Child”); a National Easter Seal Society Award (“To Walk Again”); an
International Health & Medical Film Award (“Heart of a Child”); and the
Media Award from The National Council on Problem Gambling (“Playing to Win.”)
Michael-ohara.com
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14203330.Michael_O_Hara
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dos-Angeles/1143487899001779
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