Blood Tide: A Harbor Noir Thriller: 1950s Los Angeles Detective Fiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798266102453)

His war buddy is dead. His informant lasted eight hours. And the man protecting the killers is the mentor who taught him everything.

Los Angeles, 1950. Private detective Jack Morrison reads his friend's name in the morning paper. Tom Reed, city councilman and war buddy, found dead near the harbor docks. The cops say robbery. The blood says execution.

The cover-up runs deeper than the harbor.

Reed was investigating Golden Dragon Imports, a shipping company whose spice crates mysteriously gain weight crossing the Pacific. The heroin pipeline runs with precision: Tuesday night deliveries, armed guards for "routine" cargo, and police protection all the way to the precinct captain's office.

That captain is Morrison's former mentor.

Armed with a .45, wartime safecracking skills, and a death wish dressed up as justice, Morrison follows the trail through hidden offices, midnight stakeouts, and a harbor that kills anyone who asks the wrong questions. Every person who helps him pays with their life. Every step closer to the truth pushes him deeper into a war he may not survive.

"Sometimes that's all the justice you get in a crooked town. It would have to be enough."

For readers who want their noir dark, fast, and uncompromising. BLOOD TIDE is a hardboiled detective thriller set in 1950s Southern California - first-person, audio-friendly, and built to hit like a .45 round. If you love the dark glamour of Raymond Chandler, the moral rot of James Ellroy, or the doomed intensity of classic PI fiction, this is your next read. No redemption arcs. No happy endings. Just a broken ex-cop, a corrupt harbor, and enough bullets to settle the books.

BLOOD TIDE is the first entry in Jack Morrison's Blood & Bourbon Mystery Files, a series of standalone noir mystery thrillers set across 1950s Los Angeles and Southern California. Each story stands alone. The body count doesn't.

What readers are saying:

"Douglas's mastery of 1940s-50s noir is impressive... an excellent example of a gritty crime tale." - Readers' Favorite

"Blood Tide reads like what might happen if Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy sat down to craft a story." - Bookshelfie