Radio Interview

I was bumped to Oct. 3 so you still have a chance to listen in to
The Ken Hudnall Show
Borderland Radio Network
Wednesday, Oct 3 at 6 pm MT/5 PM PDT
I'll be talking with Ken about my new thriller, The Fourth Conspirator, part 3 of the 1970s Trilogy.
As a bonus, you can get a free e-book copy of part 2 of the 1970s Trilogy, A Shot In The Arm on Amazon Kindle Direct, Oct. 3, 4, and %.
Last Chance for the free copy! Click the link below:
http://www.amazon.com/Shot-Part-1970s-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B007R525K4/ref=sr_1_1_title_1_kin?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349119593&sr=1-1&keywords=a+shot+in+the+arm+willdorf

EXCERPT FROM "A SHOT IN THE ARM"

Here's an excerpt from Part 2 of the 1970s Trilogy: A Shot In The Arm:

Twenty thousand dollars was a hell of a lot of dough back in 1973, especially if it came in cash and you didn’t mention it to the tax man. In many nice parts of San Francisco, you could get three bedrooms, a view of downtown, and have some bread left over. Scuttlebutt told me that twenty Gs was the standard retainer for someone looking at a murder rap, so that was how much I quoted Umoja Simama.

I was running a shoestring law practice in the Mission at the time. One of his lieutenants, Oso Pardo, showed up at my office with a silvery metal briefcase, snapped it open and dumped packets of bills—a year’s supply of cash—all over my desk. I’d hoped that by asking for that kind of money, Umoja would go looking for another mouthpiece. I wanted out, especially for the sake of my relationship with Christina. But as fate had it, Umoja was unaccountably flush at just that moment.

You see dough like that, you get greedy. Your mind gets addled. So I ignored my better judgment and the advice of everyone around me. I took the money in denial that I was making a Faustian bargain by accepting the loot.

FIRST PRE-PUB REVIEW FOR "A SHOT IN THE ARM"

This second book in Barry S. Willdorf’s seventies trilogy is set in the Bay Area where people’s lawyer Nate Lewis is torn between defending the oppressed, making a name for himself, and full-throttle self-destructive behavior. The fast-moving novel brings to life a world that is at once familiar– tourists are still all over Fisherman’s Wharf– and also markedly different– the main character complains about $2.00 movies.
    The primary narrator is Nate himself, who takes on a case he knows he shouldn’t.  He is drawn to– okay, a sucker for– black militants who appear to be taking a fall for someone else’s crime.    The legal details are sharp; the drinking and drugging and low life neighborhoods are Day-Glo vivid.  The plot has plenty of twists and turns, but the real interest is less in whodunit than in how Nate almost loses his life as well as the love of his life.  Nate is smart and reasonably brave, but in the end is saved from himself and some really bad actors by someone even smarter and braver. 
    I was glad to know he made it, and that there’s at least one more novel out there about him and his world.



Meredith Sue Willis, Author of Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel and Out of the Mountains.