Maximillion Slaughter

It's August 4th, 1945, Maximillion (Max) Slaughter is on the train from Sacramento, California headed home to Oakland, California, when the sudden death of a pullman porter launches him on his next adventure. The death quickly turns from being an accident to murder. Max finds himself in the middle of the theft of top secret plans for the construction of the new atomic bomb, Little Boy. The last operational Nazi spy cell on the West coast is working with the Japanese government to locate the Pacific island where the American atomic bombs are being assembled. Both the Nazi's and the Soviet secret service want the plans and are willing to do whatever it takes to get them. Max must find the stolen plans, rescue his mentor, Preston Mitchell, and stop the Nazi's attempt to transmit the Little Boy plans to their new Fourth Reich headquarters in Argentina.

African American/Black Historical Fiction//Mystery & Crime//Private Detective. It's Saturday night, July 15th, 1944; and the Avalon night club is jumping with Blues and Jazz lovers of all colors. Slaughter is the young African American owner of the Avalon night club in his early thirties, the owner of the Avalon, is in the center of his universe, Oakland, California, the Harlem of the West coast. Max meets the beautiful Lily Carter, who dies in his bed, searches for her son, finds her murderer, and buries her. Max's journey pits him against two of the city's most powerful men and their plans for postwar riches.