Jerry A. Rodriguez

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I'm a writer and filmmaker from Brooklyn. I signed a three-book deal with Kensington Books for my Nicholas Esperanza crime thriller series. The first novel is THE DEVIL'S MAMBO BUY THE BOOK . My second novel REVENGE TANGO hits bookstores 5.08.
My Website: jerryarodriguez.com . You can check out my short story "Under A Puerto Rican Sky" at natcreole.com . My short story Marine Tiger is featured in the literary anthology Bronx Biannual II from Akashic Books.
I have another short story in an upcoming superhero anthology THE DARKER MASK, from Tor/Saint Martin's press. The anthology will feature a variety of author's, including Walter Mosley, Ann Nocenti, Lorenzo Carcaterra and L.A. Banks. It will in bookstores 8.08.
My new high definition short film THE DEVIL'S MAMBO:POISONED KISS, starring Darenzia and Otto Sanchez, with an original score by Oscar Hernandez (The Spanish Harlerm Orchestra), can be viewed on my website.
Praise for THE DEVIL'S MAMBO:
“Nick Esperanza dives deep into New York's sexual underworld in this graphic, gritty first novel.” — Publisher’s Weekly
“THE DEVIL'S MAMBO...packs the punch and entertaining edge of the pulps. ” — Booklist
"Noir has a new name."
—Ken Bruen, Shamus Award-winning author of The Guards
"Debut novelist Jerry A. Rodriguez holds no punches, doesn't flinch, and comes through with a knock out performance.
—Jason Starr, author of Lights Out
"Better fortify yourself with a blast of the hard stuff, check your clip and keep your radar on sweep when you follow Nick Esperanza on his descent into the artfully portrayed dark and dank and seamy underbelly of the big, bad city in Jerry Rodriguez's The Devil's Mambo.
—Gary Phillips, author of Bangers and the Martha Chainey books
“This novel invents a new genre: sex noir. Well written, gripping and a travel guide to the seedy underbelly of mankind’s mind, The Devil’s Mambo was hard to put down. I read it in one sitting.”
—Jimmy Palmiotti, author of Beautiful Killer and Painkiller Jane
“Rodriguez's debut is a menagerie of sex, violence and the hard-boiled noir genre fans can't live without. The Devil's Mambo is a seductive read with a spanglish accent.”
—Kenji Jasper, author of Dark and The House On Childress Street