It is December 1972. J. Edgar Hoover is dead, Richard Nixon has been newly reelected, and Private Investigator Mark Renzler is just settling in for another miserable Christmas season in New York City.But even this dismal prospect fades when he is contacted by a friend of a friend in need of his help. Harmony Rollins, a blaxploitation film actress and star of the recently released Sister Shamus, is worried about her brother Harpo. An ex-Black Panther, Harpo was involved in the break-in of an FBI office and may be holding documents that the FBI doesn't want released to the public. Since the collapse of the Panthers, Harpo has been deep underground and was not in contact with his family until he called Harmony ten days ago, scared for his life and frantic that his cover had been blown. When Harpo doesn't pick up the getaway money she wired, Harmony turns to Renzler. Now Renzler must navigate through the wilderness of the fractured and paranoid radical left to find his man - or it will be a very un-Merry Christmas for all.

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Praise for Paul Engleman

Engleman scores with pitch-perfect pacing and some wry takes on race relations in the bell-bottomed 70s, with a plot that moves along smartly.

-- Publishers Weekly

A dizzying period piece, chockablock with heartwarming revelations about J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

-- Kirkus

Left for Dead left me comatose.

-- Herb, Mystery News

Politically correct it isn’t. A pleasure it is.

-- Rocky Mountain News

Left for Dead revisits the early 70s and captures the paranoid political climate of the time. It also makes a persuasive case against overreaching government agencies and the radical splinter groups that kept much of the country on edge with their potential for violence.

-- Chicago Tribune