The Lost Treasures of R&b

Publisher Marketing: Professional bodyguard D Hunter takes a gig protecting rapper Asya Roc at an underground fight club in poverty-stricken Brownsville, Brooklyn. Unknown to D, the rapper has arranged to purchase illegal guns at the event. An acquaintance of D s from the streets, Ice, turns out to be the courier. During the exchange a robbery is attempted, and Ice is wounded. D gets Asya Roc to safety but, now in possession of the illicit merchandise, finds himself being chased by two gunmen. When D and his pursuers run into a corrupt detective, a bloody shootout ensues. D, who has just moved back to Brooklyn after decades in Manhattan, finds himself involved in multiple mysteries. Who were the gunmen? Why were they after the guns? Who was being set up Asya Roc or Ice? Meanwhile, he gets a much-needed paying assignment to track down the rarest soul music single ever recorded. With gentrifying Brooklyn as the backdrop, D works to unravel various mysteries both criminal and musical while coming to terms with the failure of his security company and the ghosts of his childhood in old Brooklyn. Like its predecessors "The Accidental Hunter" and "The Plot against Hip Hop," "The Lost Treasures of R&B" uses pop music as the backdrop for a noir-flavored big-city tale." Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2014 (EAN 9781617753411, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 12/15/2014 pg. 54 (EAN 9781617753411, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 02/10/2015 (EAN 9781617753411, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 12/15/2014 (EAN 9781617753169, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  George, Nelson Nelson George has written several classic black music histories, including Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound, The Death of Rhythm & Blues, and Hip Hop America. He also coedited The James Brown Reader: 50 Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul. His most recent novel is The Plot Against Hip Hop. He has also contributed articles to the New York Times. George directed the HBO film Life Support as well as the VH1 documentary Finding the Funk.