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99 Days

Vertigo Crime series

99 DAYS is the story of Antoine Boshoso Davis, who is living the dream as a rookie homicide detective for the LAPD. But 12 years ago he was living a nightmare. As a young Hutu in Rwanda, Antoine was forced to become a child soldier with the rebel Hutu militia. Like so many others he was caught up in the slaughter of a country gone insane—murdering scores of men, womenand children with a machete.Antoine eventually fled Rwanda to LA, was raised by an adoptive family into a quiet, sensitive man with a deep need for justice—so he joined the LAPD.

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But when a serial killer starts stalking the African American residents of LA—murdering them with a machete—Antoine discovers that his past has come back to haunt him.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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