In the summer of 2016, many addicts are dying in the Washington, D.C. area. Their obituaries advertise a major change in the addiction community.

They die quietly, as most addicts do. Among them are a right-wing radio personality, a local politician who overdosed in a hotel suite with a 14-year-old prostitute, and Willie B., a celebrated local street musician. There is no obvious connection among these deaths.

Colin Marsh, ex-reporter, has attended more funerals than he can count, but the loss of Willie B. nags at him. Why so many addict deaths? Why Willie B. who was a smart user? Having worked together to defeat a major drug dealer in Thirst, Colin Marsh and Mamadou Dioh team up again in Dope to combat an even greater threat—a plot to distribute poisoned drugs in the Washington area targeting untold thousands of users. 

Sagnier builds characters as solid, gritty, and as broken as a D.C. street, with prose that lights up like monuments on a starry night.

— Michael J. Sullivan, best-selling author of The Riyria Revelations

$17.95

A Fortune In Drugs Is Missing.  Finding them starts with finding her.  Colin isn't a cop.  Joe is, but isn't up for this.  Mamadou was an excellent police police officer back in Senegal, but in Washington D.C he drives a limo.  Josie's just a girl—a recovering crack addict fed up with her parents and with Herbie, her boyfriend,  She's planning on giving him a piece of her mind.  Trouble is, Herbie stole a shipment of drugs, and now he's dead.  And let's not forget Mollie Catfish...  Now the Zulu wants his drugs,  Mamadou wants revenge.  Joe wants to do his job for once, and Colin wants to save his girlfriend's daughter.  All Josie wants to do is remember what Herbie might have told her, what the Zulu insists she knows.  If she doesn't—she's dead too.  Mollie?  She wants it all.  Behind the polished marble of Washington DC, lies dark alleys where everyone thirsts for something,

Sagnier builds characters as solid, gritty, and as broken as a D.C. street, with prose that lights up like monuments on a starry night.

— Michael J. Sullivan, best-selling author of The Riyria Revelations

Readers looking for a face-paced crime novel will find nine faster than this one,  For us, there is no covnetiuonal mystery to solve; the crimes are committed in full view.  What kept me turning the pages was the familiar fallibility of the characters, good guys and bad, that prevented any of the action from becoming predictable.

— S. Spayd, Goodreads

ISBN: 978-0-9889391-7-2

$14.95

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