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.

New Alpha Rising: Ascension Part I

New Alpha Rising: Ascension Part I

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<p>Countless years ago, measured in thousands, the Gods came first. Monstrous creations were born of their frivolity. Like the Gods, some of the creations were peaceful, others not. Their duty to preserve the earth completed once more, however, the day came that the Gods had to leave earth. Unleashed and with loose regulation, the abominable creations left behind multiplied. In their midst, another conception came to be, and his kind would exist absolutely outside of the God’s purview.<br />Unmated, alone, and untrusting of others, Chatran was charged to go to a place and protect the father of a great child, yet unborn. This duty, however, was unknown to the most cognizant part of Chatran. Only the Beast, who resided within him, knew. As a result, the Beast led Chatran to Walhalla, North Dakota. Although his initial charge was to protect the father he found there, Chatran also gained a mate and Pack. With them, Chatran also found a new way forward, and started on a course that would lead to – New Alpha Rising: Ascension.</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>