<p>Haik Pehlivanian runs the violent streets of Detroit with the murderous Purple Gang and later raids boxcars for food in the city’s trainyards just to survive. In a stroke of luck, he is recruited into Henry Ford’s infamous “Service Department,” run by Harry Bennett, the former boxer and thug hired to break unions. Later he is assigned to escort world-renowned artist Diego Rivera, who has been commissioned by Edsel Ford to complete a series of murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and soon Haik and Rivera concoct a plan to steal a brand new ‘32 Ford Deuce Coupe. Will Bennett catch on to Haik and make him “disappear?” Can Haik trust the impish, outlandish Rivera? Will Rivera’s wife Frida Kahlo destroy both her own marriage and Haik’s? Read River Rouge and find out.</p>

River Rouge

Literature & Fiction

Jeffire, John

Genre Fiction

Write On Detroit

Motown Burning is a love story as poignant and familiar as Romeo and Juliet. Aram, a motherless, disadvantaged boy from the streets of Detroit meets Katie, a girl with a fairy tale family from the affluent suburbs and the rest, as they say, is history.  However, prejudice and hatred intervene and Aram, whose anger gets the better of him most of the time, finds himself with a no-win choice: prison or Vietnam. At the same time, Katie finds herself pregnant and abandoned by her parents.  The novel begins in a helicopter over Vietnam and takes the reader on a roller coaster ride all the way through to the end. The story unfolds through the characters; Opie, a young man who is a crack shot from shooting squirrels back home, Saint, who is an artist not an soldier, Mary Jane, Katie's rough edged cousin, and a myriad of other delightful participants in this very entertaining saga.  Motown Burning takes the reader through a gamut of emotions. It is the sort of story that the reader will not soon forget.

Motown Burning

John Jeffire

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River Rouge

Motown Burning