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When Buddy is approached by an L.A.-based Mexican cartel to be their main man on the Big Island, and becomes convinced that he and his particular cohorts and minions can go up against and defeat the entrenched Japanese organization, which has controlled all vice in the Islands, including the meth trade, since time immemorial, and which certainly has no intention of sharing, let alone being forced out, of such a lucrative criminal enterprise, the stage is set for Dark Paradise, Lono Waiwaiole's brilliant Red Harvest in miniature, a noir novel-com-sociological study that truly tells it like it is, showing the society that has resulted from the policies of internal colonialism that have been practiced by the federal government of the United States, starting with the Calvinist missionaries of European descent and continuing through the last one hundred twenty-five years, with successive waves of imported foreign labor-Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, South Sea Islander-always with the native Hawaiians relegated to the bottom rung of the economic totem pole, where the only outs-just like in the mainland ghettos-are sports, entertainment, or drug-dealing. Maybe the situation will change some day, if enough people read and understand novels like Dark Paradise. *Starred Review* Waiwaiole has an Elmore Leonard-touch with his lowlifes, injecting plenty of pop culture and humanizing quirks, but these guys never seem unrealistically lovable the way Leonard's rogues sometimes do. They're more like the cut-to-the-bone characters in a Daniel Woodrell novel, or even early Pelecanos-say, King Suckerman-loose cannons careening about a confined space: it's big, but it's still an island, and in the end, there's no place to run. Noir fans need to know about Waiwaiole right now. 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An inner-city high school teacher and basketball coach when this actually occurred in Portland, Waiwaiole has a wealth of first-hand exposure to this story and the writing chops to deliver it convincingly. Praise for LEON'S LEGACY Lono Waiwaiole writes with a command you don't see much anymore. He is the opposite of the winking hard-boil writer of today. He writes authentically and knowingly about America's underclass, the streets and being an outsider. Leon's Legacy is an unexpectedly honest novel about a violent teenage world, peopled with intensely believable characters whose upside down humanity will grab you. -Kent Harrington, author of The Red Jungle and Rat Machine","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52127207194897,"sku":"NLS9781943402496","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781943402496.jpg?v=1757484487"},{"product_id":"wiley-s-refrain-book-lono-waiwaiole-9781943402991","title":"Wiley's Refrain","description":"Wiley is a professional poker player in Portland who keeps vigil on the seedy streets of the city's darker side. He's no stranger to violence, but he's got a good heart and a noble streak that his friends and family know is a mile long. His enemies often see a streak of a different sort, particularly when he teams up with this best friend, Leon, and the two are simultaneously beloved and feared among those who know them. Wiley is also a man who solves problems for his friends. The murder of a young musician who is close to his extended family puts Wiley in a vengeful frame of mind. He follows the evidence through the darkest corners of the city. When the trail points to Hawai'i, a place in which Wiley has never set foot but seems lately to be calling him home, he heads for the land of his ancestors in the hopes of finding justice for his young friend. Reminiscent of the classic noir masters but with a modern twist all his own, Lono Waiwaiole is increasingly recognized as one of the groundbreaking masters of noir fiction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52139929633041,"sku":"NLS9781943402991","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781943402991.jpg?v=1757571724"},{"product_id":"wiley-s-lament-book-lono-waiwaiole-9781943402977","title":"Wiley's Lament","description":"Wiley is a man who's drifting through the remains of his torn-up life like a ghost, playing poker to make ends meet but always on the edge of the abyss, not quite sure whether his minimal efforts at life are worth the trouble. 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