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John Baker , crime writer
Crime writer John
Baker's novels include Poet in the Gutter
(1995); Death Minus Zero (1996); King of the Streets (1998);
Walking with Ghosts (1999); The Chinese Girl (2000); Shooting in
the Dark (2001); The Meanest Flood (2003) and White Skin Man
(2004).
White Skin Man is a political novel about racism, those who
suffer
it, those who perpetrate it, and those who stand and watch. The
novel pits ex-con Stone Lewis and his friends against an
intelligent and ruthless white supremacist and a gang of dangerous
skinhead no-hopers.
In addition to writing crime and mystery novels, Baker is a book
reviewer for Shots magazine and the Tangled Web. He is also a
member of the Murder Squad, a collective of crime writers who
use
workshops, panels, readings, and lectures to promote the genre.
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