Brad Parks is the only author to have won the Shamus, Nero and Lefty Awards, three of crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he spent a dozen years as a reporter for The Washington Post and The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger. THE PLAYER - out on March 4th - is his fifth novel in the Carter Ross series, about an investigative journalist working for a Newark, NJ newspaper. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children. For more information, visit http://www.bradparksbooks.com or find him on Facebook or Twitter @Brad_Parks.

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Read Brad Parks' four-part series on the 1967 Newark race riots