SCAVENGER at East City Books
THREE ROOMS PRESS & EAST CITY BOOKSHOP PRESENT
SCAVENGER: A Mystery
By Christopher Chambers
In conversation with acclaimed historical novelist Louis Bayard
https://www.eastcitybookshop.com/event/2020-11
Join East City Bookshop and Three Rooms Press on Thursday, November 12, 7:00 pm EDT, for a reading and discussion of SCAVENGER: A Mystery by Christopher Chambers, in conversation with acclaimed historical mystery novelist Louis Bayard. This virtual event features reading and lively discussion. Advance registration required. For details, please visit https://www.eastcitybookshop.com/event/2020-11
ABOUT SCAVENGER
Christopher Chambers, author of A Prayer for Deliverance and Sympathy for the Devil (NAACP Image Award nominee) brings a 21st-century take on hardboiled noir tales in SCAVENGER, a gripping thriller underscored by themes of race, homelessness, hustling, and the savagery—and salvation—of the human psyche.
The novel centers on Dickie Cornish, a Black streetwise survivor living in a homeless camp near D.C.’s Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Framed for the murder of two of his closest friends and facing life in prison, Dickie crosses paths with wealthy ex-Homeland Security Secretary, Jamie Bracht. Bracht offers him a chance at a new life if Dickie can navigate an underground world to uncover a prize Bracht will stop at nothing to acquire.
As Dickie searches, SCAVENGER tracks its way through an underground population of Washington, D.C., where hustlers, drug addicts, homeless, and undocumented immigrants jostle for crumbs while trying to survive. Chambers paints a portrait of D.C. from the ground up, with back-alley streetscapes, gentrification clashes, and unexpected encounters between politicians and bottom-rung natives—all set against a soundscape of patois, street Spanish, and D.C. slang. A hopeless amateur detective at first, Dickie quickly learns the ropes of being a sleuth in a cat-and-mouse game of greed, deceit, double-crossing, and murder.
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS
ABOUT LOUIS BAYARD
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