A retired cop and a young slacker take on small-town corruption in an eco-thriller that is part Elmore Leonard, part Carl Hiassen, and 100 percent Jersey. Luke Mulcek calls himself a businessman. He’s actually a thug in a suit, a former Brooklyn kid, ex-boxer, and mechanic who made good. Luke’s got an in at the water company in a small suburban town, where he’s concocted a $200 million land deal to build condos on the reservoir. Ramming the plan through the town’s planning board is the tricky part. Shadow Lakes isn’t Brooklyn, and even before page one Mulcek has decided to cut through the red tape the way he would have done in the old neighborhood. With payoffs, threats, blackmail — and murder. Mulcek’s undoing — and the key to this eco-thriller — is a creature from the skies, bred by nature to be the ultimate killing machine. This e-book comes with a free, 3-chapter excerpt of the new haunted house novel, Haven House, by author Stuart Connelly. NOTE: Jersey Heat is 77,000 words, and contains sex, violence, and profanity. The excerpt from Haven House is 6,900 words, and contains scenes of literary horror. PRAISE “D’Agnese writes the most unusual and interesting books.”—Bookviews ABOUT THE AUTHOR Award-winning journalist Joseph D’Agnese has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous magazines. He’s author of The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-timers, & the Self-Employed (Random House); Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame & Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence (Quirk); Signing Their Rights Away (Quirk), and the children’s picture book, Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci (Holt).