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Robert Lamb

Robert Lamb

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.

Love Triangles: Discovering Jesus the Jew in Today's Israel

Love Triangles: Discovering Jesus the Jew in Today's Israel

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<p>A Jewish woman’s unconventional quest to find Jesus in modern Israel<br /><br />With candor and an intimate knowledge of the Land and its people, Bobbie Ann Cole takes you on some intriguing time travel, such as to the ceremonial slaughtering of Passover lambs in the nearby temple as Jesus died on the cross.<br />Her moving and compellingly-written personal story of making Aliyah to Israel with her husband, Butch effectively interweaves Israel’s ancient and modern history with biblical references. She reveals the challenges that have faced Jewish believers from Peter and Paul on down to the present day, including her own. The underlying antagonism of her beloved Israel towards Messianic Jews leaves her sneaking around, keeping her true identity secret.<br />A blend of memoir, travelogue, historical document and investigative journalism, Love Triangles<br />is not about theological principals; it's about love.<br />Discover:<br />• How Jesus used Jewish festivals to underscore His message.<br />• The story of Jesus’ Bar Mitzvah.<br />• Why Jewish atheists may move to Israel but not believer Jews.<br />• Why Judaism rejects Jesus as Messiah.</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.

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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>