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Joe Ide


Born
The United States
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Genre
Mystery


Joe Ide is of Japanese American descent. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles, an economically depressed area with a largely black population. Gangs and street crime were rampant. Like a lot of kids, Joe wanted to belong and his speech, style, musical tastes and attitudes reflected the neighborhood.

His favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. That a person could make his way in the world and vanquish his enemies with just his intelligence fascinated him.

Eventually, he went on to university and received a graduate degree in education. He worked as a school teacher, a college lecturer, a corporate middle manager and director of an NGO that offered paralegal services and emergency shelter to abused women and children. He ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 39,173 ratings · 5,266 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors
IQ (IQ, #1)
3.78 avg rating — 19,475 ratings — published 2016 — 35 editions
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Righteous (IQ, #2)
3.86 avg rating — 8,130 ratings — published 2017 — 22 editions
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Wrecked (IQ #3)
3.91 avg rating — 4,747 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions
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Hi Five (IQ, #4)
3.56 avg rating — 3,170 ratings — published 2020 — 18 editions
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Smoke (IQ #5)
3.95 avg rating — 2,068 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions
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The Goodbye Coast
3.55 avg rating — 1,509 ratings — published 2022
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Wrecked: Free Preview (An I...
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Fixit: An IQ Novel (An IQ N...
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“Isaiah went on explaining like a college professor talking to a not very bright middle school student:”
― Joe Ide, IQ
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“It’s a hustler’s world, son,” Dodson said, “and if you ain’t doing the hustlin’? Somebody’s hustlin’ you.”
― Joe Ide, IQ
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“A customer came in, the only one in the last couple of hours. The man had the shakes and was looking around like he’d lost a child at the county fair. He was a regular, somewhere between forty and sixty, his face sagging like Auntie May’s basset hound, his eyes yellow and bloodshot from seeing too much of his own life.”
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