{"id":38693,"date":"2025-04-07T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38693"},"modified":"2025-04-06T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T00:09:30","slug":"whos-going-with-me-to-murderopolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38693","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Going With Me to MURDEROPOLIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anthony Neil Smith has a new novel that just dropped.\u00a0 It’s called MURDEROPOLIS<\/a>\u00a0 and it sounds like a banger! (That shouldn’t be a surprise if you’ve read Smith’s stuff — he always entertains.)\u00a0 Here’s the lowdown…<\/p>\n

Drug dealer Morris and his gangbangers terrorize the halls of the drug-scarred Northside High School. That is until Roble Engstrom, a struggling Somali-American teacher and family man, joins forces with an old-school coach, dubbed as \u201cCaptain Karate\u201d. The pair embark on a relentless mission to rid the school and students of the increasing drug problem. The unlikely duo step up their vigilante mission when Morris\u2019 heroin kills one of their students.<\/p>\n

Roble and the coach soon learn that Morris is just a pawn in a much more dangerous game. Up and coming gang leader of the Shifta Murder Squad, Sharmarke learns of the teachers meddling in his business, he will stop at nothing to climb his way to the top. Aided by a corrupt gang squad cop, Mika Feist, Sharmarke embarks on a violent campaign to eliminate everyone who stands in his way.<\/p>\n

But how corrupt can one cop be? Can two teachers really take on a gang of murderous and ruthless teens playing gangster? And at what point do those who pledge their allegiance to Sharmarke turn against one of their own?<\/p>\n

Welcome to Murderapolis!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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