Story Behind The Book
As a reporter/feature writer for The Atlanta Constitution, I covered a lot of stories about street life: prostitution (both heterosexual and homosexual), runaways, drifters, homeless, bar flies, club workers, etc. I knew that what I was witnessing and writing about was great material for a novel. The central problem was how to get all this into one coherent story. Then I recalled that looking for somebody, in this case a missing college girl, could take a searcher just about anywhere. Suddenly I had my story.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;">Praise for <em>Atlanta Blues</em></span></strong></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;">“No one knows Hotlanta’s seamy underbelly better than ex-Atlanta newspaperman Robert Lamb. <em>Atlanta Blues</em> is almost Chandleresque in the way it explores the dark soul and swift undercurrents of this glittering hub of the New South.” ~ <strong>Mark A. Bradley, former <em>Atlanta Constitution</em> intern reporter and former CIA officer now with the U.S. Justice Dept. </strong></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;">“In <em>Atlanta Blues</em>, Robert Lamb writes with the authority and sensitivity of (Joseph) Wambaugh at his best. This haunting novel will keep you awake – reading it the first night, thinking about it afterward.” <strong>~ Richard Layman, author and publisher</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;">“I was Robert Lamb’s editor when he covered Atlanta’s soft underbelly of sin for <em>The Atlanta Constitution</em> in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and I know he writes the truth. The setting could be any big city in America. Bob has done a masterful job of depicting how policing urban America’s mean streets affects the lives of the men in blue and the people they care for.” <strong>~ David Osier, former <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</em> and CNN editor</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif;">“Crackling with narrative energy and hardboiled dialogue, Bob Lamb’s new novel is a cat-and-mouse thriller that blows Elmore Leonard out of the water and gives Joseph Wambaugh a tight run for the money.” <strong>~ Wade Tabor, author, <em>Miller’s Rules</em> and <em>The Long-Range Plan</em></strong></span></p>