No recent novel captures our imagination with the force of Fair Warning. It bravely confronts our preconceptions about life in America with perceptiveness and lucidity. Fair Warning presents a microcosm of American life as it transitions from a nation where the dreams of the many were fulfilled to a land ruled by greedy plutocrats, a land with an increasingly uncertain future. Bob Zimmerman's psychological thriller is set in New Orleans Garden District and French Quarter just after Hurricane Katrina, during the 2006 Mardi Gras. Fair Warning is much more than just another great read. Its full cast of complex characters and mind-bending plot offer a perceptive critique of our troubled social, economic, and political systems. Fair Warning's many provocative characters etch their way into our permanent memories. They range from the highly principled and compassionate to bottom-feeding sexual deviates. There's oilman/protagonist Eddie Lord; Sister Angelica, the head nun who runs the orphanage where Eddie grows up; Constant Masterson, a disillusioned Tulane law professor and law enforcement profiler; Royale Bonner, the stripper-addicted New Orleans' Violent Crime Squad; James Iverson, a thoroughly deranged federal judge; MacArthur Reasoner, an investigative reporter; and Wiley, Reasoner's irascible pup.