Ash Levine Books In Publication Order
- Kind of Blue (2010)
- Midnight Alley (2012)
Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order
- The Killing Season (1997)
- And Still We Rise (2000)
- Homicide Special (2004)
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Kind of Blue
When a legendary ex cop is mudered in L.A, the pressure’s on to find the killer. Lt. Frank Duffy needs his best detective on the case, but his best detective, Ash Levine, quit a year ago. A tenacious, obsessive detective, Ash resigned after Latisha Patton, the witness in a homicide case he was working, was murdered. Without his job, Ash is left unanchored and consumed with guilt that he somehow caused Latisha’s murder. When he’s asked to rejoin the force, Ash reluctantly agrees. Getting his badge back could give him the chance to find Latisha’s killer. Ash dives headfirst into the shadowlands of Southern California to investigate the ex cop’s murder. But even when he has a suspect in custody, something about this case doesn’t sit right with Ash, and he continues working the increasingly dangerous investigation while quietly chasing leads in Latisha’s murder. Unable to let either case go, Ash finds that his obsessive nature might prove fatal.
Midnight Alley
Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD’s elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. The case is a high priority because one of the victims is the son of City Councilman Isaac Pinkney, a frequent critic of the LAPD. Searching for the killer throws Levine into the world of Los Angeles’s Russian Mafia, Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, and Middle Eastern archeologists. Ash’s history as a child of a Holocaust survivor gives him a unique perspective on murder, redemption, and justice. His background as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and his relentless, single minded focus on his investigations make him a thoroughly absorbing character. As Ash closes in on the killer, the investigation becomes increasingly complex and personal. Ash soon discovers that he is not just an investigator, but a target.
The Killing Season
Gaining unprecedented access to the LAPD, crime reporter Miles Corwin shadows two homicide detectives on the mean streets of South Central L.A. Pete ‘Raz’ Razanskas and Marcella Winn were unlikely partners: one a crusty, twenty two year veteran of the force; the other a street smart woman from the ‘hood. A graphic, uncensored look at real cops and real killers, The Killing Season is that rare combination of first rate reportage and riveting storytelling that will leave you shaken, informed, and blasted awake.
And Still We Rise
Miles Corwin spent the 1996 97 school year with a class of high school seniors enrolled in a gifted program in South Central L.A., one of America’s most impoverished, crime ridden neighborhoods. And Still We Rise is the stirring chronicle of these determined young people as they face the greatest challenge of their academic lives. Toya’s stepfather strangled her mother to death when Toya was in fifth grade. Olivia, a ward of the county, had lived in ten different foster and group homes by the time she was sixteen. Sadi, who grew up as a gangbanger, has seen three of his homies die and numerous others go to jail. Stories such as these are part of everyday life for the gifted students of Crenshaw High School. Toya, Olivia and Sadi are just three of the twelve remarkable young people depicted in And Still We Rise. Miles Corwin, author of The Killing Season and journalist for the Los Angeles Times, spent a year in the classroom with these kids, ghetto scholars who qualified for an elite gifted program because of their exceptional IQs and standardized test scores. Corwin recorded their journey as they fought their own private wars on the chance that they might one day attend college. Corwin sat alongside them as they studied William Shakespeare and James Joyce in classrooms where bullets were known to rip through windows. But for these students, the physical landscape was not their only battleground: Caught in the political crossfire, they face an uncertain future as the last high school senior class to benefit from affirmative action. What’s more, the teacher they depend on most alternates between inspired lecturing and bitter ranting about an administration she perceives as the enemy. Before the end of the year, one of these students will be arrested. Another will drop out of school because she’s pregnant. Still, they won’t give up. Many of these bright and persistent students will graduate, and, against all odds, win scholarships to college. And Still We Rise is an unforgettable story of how twelve students manage to transcend obstacles that would dash the hopes of any but the most exceptional spirits. Author and journalist Miles Corwin spent the entire 1996 97 school year with a remarkable group of individuals: the students in the senior Advanced Placement English class at Crenshaw High School young ghetto scholars who have managed to excel despite living in the hostile world of South Central Los Angeles. This book is a moving account of their courage, achievements, strength, and resilient spirit their personal crises, setbacks, catastrophes, and triumphs. It is an unforgettable ten month visit to the dynamic, electrically charged classroom of Toni Little, an inspiring but volatile and wildly unpredictable white educator determined to imbue her minority students with a passion for great literature. Corwin also spent the year with Anita ‘Mama’ Moultrie, a flamboyant black teacher whose Afrocentric teaching style was diametrically opposed to Little’s traditional approach. These exceptional students all classified as gifted provide a ground zero perspective on the affirmative action debate and will remain with the readers always. Author and journalist Miles Corwin spent the entire 1996 97 school year with a remarkable group of individuals: the students in the senior Advanced Placement English class at Crenshaw High School young ghetto scholars who have managed to excel despite living in the hostile world of South Central Los Angeles. This book is a moving account of their courage, achievements, strength, and resilient spirit their personal crises, setbacks, catastrophes, and triumphs. It is an unforgettable ten month visit to the dynamic, electrically charged classroom of Toni Little, an inspiring but volatile and wildly unpredictable white educator determined to imbue her minority students with a passion for great literature. Corwin also spent the year with Anita ‘Mama’ Moultrie, a flamboyant black teacher whose Afrocentric teaching style was diametrically opposed to Little’s traditional approach. These exceptional students all classified as gifted provide a ground zero perspective on the affirmative action debate and will remain with the readers always.
Homicide Special
A riveting, behind the scenes look at one of the most elite, highly trained units of homicide detectives in the countryLos Angeles is a town of dreamers and of those who prey on them. The scene of innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called Homicide Special, whose mandate is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and highest profile cases. Now acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses his unprecedented access to this legendary unit to portray six of its cases and capture its newest generation at work. When a call girl from Kiev dies in the line of duty, detectives Chuck Knolls and Brian McCartin seek her killer among a circle of Russian women who have been sold unwittingly into white slavery. When a gangster’s daughter, brought up in Las Vegas, takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to one of Manhattan s wealthiest real estate magnates. A cold case is reopened; a suspicious mother daughter drowning and a baffling rape/murder case are solved. And finally, Corwin re creates the investigation surrounding the late Bonny Lee Bakley a woman driven, like her city, by the desire for fame who was allegedly murdered by her actor husband, Robert Blake. Compulsively readable, artfully written, and surprisingly redemptive, Homicide Special offers a thrilling insider s report on some of the nation s most high profile and complex homicides and the extraordinary men who solve them.
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