THE BLACK ROSE takes JOE DYLAN on his fourth adventure to London on a missing person case that tangles him up in a nest of crime, drugs and an evil club-footed gypsy with a beautiful wayward daughter determined to find her own path to Fun city. Originally a pulp short story writer JAMES A. NEWMAN'S first crime novel BANGKOK EXPRESS made a huge pulp splash and was followed swiftly by the dark and gritty RED NIGHT ZONE, but it wasn't until the razor sharp novel THE WHITE FLAMINGO that Newman hit the number one spot in the NOIR charts and caught the attention of his peers. Edgar and Shamus nominee crime author Timothy Hallinan describes Newman as an author who "writes with a flamethrower, terrifically gifted, enormously energetic." He has been compared by critics to Charles Bukowski, Stephen King, Ken Bruen, Hunter S. Thompson and William Burroughs. The follow-up in the Joe Dylan series THE BLACK ROSE as been described as "a page turner from the get-go, Newman doesn't waste any words or the readers time." Newman also writes many short stories, novels, non-fiction work, screen and stage-plays along with being the co-founder and content editor of SPANKING PULP PRESS. He is also the founder of the BANGKOK NIGHT OF NOIR and a member of the Bangkok Writers Guild. He lives with his young family and writes as if his very life depends on it. Which it does. THE BLACK ROSE is his most daring book thus far.