About
I've published three novels novels and one collection of short stories and poems.
My latest novel is A Majority of One, which is about book-banning and religious zealotry.
The stories and poems collection is titled Six of One, Half Dozen of Another.
Striking Out, my first novel, is a coming of age story set in Georgia. It was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway
award.
Atlanta Blues, my second novel, is about the search for a missing college girl by a reporter and two cops. The search leads through the underbelly of urban Atlanta to murder and heartbreak. The novel was nominated for an Edgar Award.
Striking Out and Atlanta Blues have been taught in American lit. courses in college. All my books are available at Amazon.com and at smashwords.com.
Description
<p><strong><em>Have you ever awoken from a vivid dream and wondered which side of waking was real?</em></strong></p><p>Burt Higgins' retirement is not going well. His children have grown, and his wife has gone off to earn a late-life degree, leaving him alone in his sprawling suburban home. With too much time on his hands, he broods on the state of the world, obsessively following the worst of cable news and the Internet. Increasingly angry at the state of affairs, he nurtures a fantasy that a dark lord from another realm has foisted these problems on humankind. If only he could transport to that world, he'd confront the demon and use the magic found there to defeat the beast and end despair forever.</p><p>On a particularly bad news day, while housebound in the midst of a snowstorm, he retreats to his study to shut out the world and immerse himself in his books. When, on a whim, he lights a candle purchased in an obscure Prague curiosity shop, a magical guide appears and offers to take him on whatever quest he chooses. When he asks to become a hero in a fantasy realm, he discovers a more complex world than he expected, and battling evil with magic turns out to be far from his greatest challenge.</p><p><strong>EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS</strong> a specualtive fantasy adventure sure not just to entertain you, but to make you consider your life, your dreams, your goals. [DRM-Free]</p><h2><strong>Books by David Litwack:</strong></h2><ul><li><em>Along the Watchtower</em></li><li><em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em></li><li><em>The Time That's Given</em></li><li><em>The Children of Darkness</em> (The Seekers - Book 1)</li><li><em>The Stuff of Stars</em> (The Seekers - Book 2)</li><li><em>The Light of Reason</em> (The Seekers - Book 3)</li></ul><h2><strong>More Great Fantasy Fiction from Evolved Publishing:</strong></h2><ul><li><em>The Awakening of David Rose</em> (David Rose #1) by Daryl Rothman</li><li><em>Shadow Swarm</em> by D. Robert Pease</li><li><em>Kingdom in Chains</em> by J.W. Zulauf</li><li>The "Grims' Truth" Series by Isu Yin & Fae Yang</li></ul><p> </p>
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.
Reviews
<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>
