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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.

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(Book 1) Betrayed by the woman he loved and on the verge of destitution, artist Jonathan Martinez channels his anguish and rage into what will become his greatest masterpiece—Passion and Betrayal. The painting, critically acclaimed, ushers him into the world of fine art and allows him to realize his dreams. Stepping out of the shadows, he transforms into Phillipe, a wealthy artist and sought-after bachelor who enjoys an extravagant lifestyle—including his pick of any woman he desires. But when Phillipe least expects, the woman who almost destroyed him returns on the arm of his agent. Despite his anger, she awakens the part of his soul he entombed long ago. The part of him that can never forget her, no matter how deeply he buries himself in his art. With everything he's accomplished at stake, can Phillipe overpower the demons that haunt him and learn to love again? Or will his heart remain a shattered work of art that can never be restored?

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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Praise for Atlanta Blues “No one knows Hotlanta’s seamy underbelly better than ex-Atlanta newspaperman Robert Lamb. Atlanta Blues is almost Chandleresque in the way it explores the dark soul and swift undercurrents of this glittering hub of the New South.” ~ Mark A. Bradley, former Atlanta Constitution intern reporter and former CIA officer now with the U.S. Justice Dept. “In Atlanta Blues, 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.” ~ Richard Layman, author and publisher “I was Robert Lamb’s editor when he covered Atlanta’s soft underbelly of sin for The Atlanta Constitution 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.” ~ David Osier, former Atlanta Journal-Constitution and CNN editor “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.” ~ Wade Tabor, author, Miller’s Rules and The Long-Range Plan

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