The Killing Breeze

by Tony Lindsay

The Killing Breeze is a story of societal unrest told from the point view of two main characters, opposites in a one being a Black male Ph.D., the other a white female undergraduate. The unrest takes place in the fictional Falcon City; a city in America that becomes the focal point of national police killings; every time a Black person is killed by police nationally, a white officer is slain locally in Falcon city. The young white female undergraduate, Denise Thomas, makes the initial correlation. She seeks out Dr. Noble Breeze, the Ph.D., to correlate her theory. Due to the police being shot, the city is in a volatile state, tense throughout, and that tension remains through the novel generating a page turning read. Dr. Noble Breeze is in no way a typical academic; his checkered past includes psychiatric ward hospitalization, and his current life involves clandestine activities with a militarized think-tank known as the American Purist Society.The racial tension between the police, The American Purist Society, and the Black citizens of Falcon drive the novel to a climatic clash between the Black citizens, white supremacist, the military, and the police; at the center of the conflict are the national police killings. The novel is alarming in its timeliness and unsettling in the revelations of American thought; what a reader presumes will happen, doesn’t; the novel is not a cliffhanger – it drops the reader off a cliff.

186 pages, Paperback

Published June 2, 2017

About the author

Tony Lindsay is the author of seven novels; One Dead Preacher, Street Possession, Chasin’ It, Urban Affair, One Dead Lawyer, More Boy than Girl, One Dead Doctor and four short story collections titled Pieces of the Hole, Fat from Papa’s Head, Love, Lust, and Addiction, and Almost Grown. He has published book critiques and reviews for Black Issue’s Book Review. He was a contributor to the anthologies Don't Hate the Game, Lucious, and Fire and Desire. He has also contributed to the on-line encyclopedia Identity.com, and Mosiac.com. He has been published by to the African American literary web-site ‘Timbooktu.com’, as well as the young adult magazine Cicada. He writes bimonthly articles for Conversations magazine, and he writes non-fiction book reviews for Hartman Publishing’s N’DIGO Magapaper. Lindsay has a Post Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literatures East Carolina University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University, and Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Illinois – Chicago. He teaches at Calumet College of St. Joseph, Harold Washington College, Ivy Tech Community College, and South Suburban College.

Reviews

[Lynne Hélèna]

Interesting take on current events

Lindsay’s book, Killing Breeze, was a fast and entertaining read. He has combined different worlds to collide: the world of the mental health ward, of the college campus, the Black urban experiences, the underground societies and the FBI. If that doesn’t entice you to read this book, I truly enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to a continuation of the story of these characters.

[Shannan Harper]

I'm not normally a fan of urban stories. They've just never been my thing. I have to say this was such a great and well written story. There are a lot of things in the story that has been happening in today's time. The story is told from two points of view, a young Caucasian woman and an older PHD African American college professor. For most of the story, the two are worlds apart, until the unthinkable happens that will change the way they think and rock their worlds. This was an absolutely amazing read. I was truly in my feelings while reading this book, and I will be looking for more books from this author

[Ellen]

The Killing Breeze


In this story author Tony Lindsay gives us a thought provoking view of societal issues from a higher hierarchy standpoint, Character Dr Noble Breeze who is a criminal psychologist takes us on a journey of cause and effect of a societal heinous crimes manipulated by psychologists Dr. Talbert.

DR. Noble Breeze is one of Psychiatrist Dr. Talbert patient who has a trouble beginning , along with Secretary Melody knight who met at the time of DR. Noble Breeze treatments , and the two becomes the dynamic duo to the( APS ) American Pursuit Society workmanship .

Meanwhile undergraduate MS. Denise Thomson gives DR. Noble Breeze a reality check in which Denise feels that DR. Noble Breeze has been blindsided and in some way deprogrammed by psychologists DR. Talbert, and is out of touch with the societal racism in America.

In this story there is suspense and lots of mayhem, thought provoking and would lead you to believe , could it be that random hate crimes could be the work of those in HIGHER POWER.

5 star read
ESP

[Grady]

Tony Lindsay strikes another peak in his career

Author Tony Lindsay has a Post Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literatures from East Carolina University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University, and Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He teaches at Calumet College of St. Joseph, Harold Washington College, and Ivy Tech Community College. Having read most of Tony Lindsay's substantial output of books of all types, this reader comes back to the same thought shared with those who pick up his books: `The stories have a great deal of flavor because of the polished gift Tony Lindsay has in writing in the vernacular: he adds pepper and spices in the lingo of the characters without impinging on the flow of his well-rafted stories.' Said once, said again. There are few writers who can create the entire atmosphere of a story - descriptions of place, time, characters, motivations, and street talk - as well as Tony Lindsay.

This rather short book THE KILLING BREEZE is summarized by Tony as follows The Killing Breeze is a story of societal unrest told from the point view of two main characters, opposites in a sense: one being a Black male Ph.D., the other a white female undergraduate. The unrest takes place in the fictional Falcon City; a city in America that becomes the focal point of national police killings; every time a Black person is killed by police nationally, a white officer is slain locally in Falcon city. The young white female undergraduate, Denise Thomas, makes the initial correlation. She seeks out Dr. Noble Breeze, the Ph.D., to correlate her theory. Due to the police being shot, the city is in a volatile state, tense throughout, and that tension remains through the novel generating a page turning read. Dr. Noble Breeze is in no way a typical academic; his checkered past includes psychiatric ward hospitalization, and his current life involves clandestine activities with a militarized think-tank known as the American Purist Society. The racial tension between the police, The American Purist Society, and the Black citizens of Falcon drive the novel to a climatic clash between the Black citizens, white supremacist, the military, and the police; at the center of the conflict are the national police killings. The novel is alarming in its timeliness and unsettling in the revelations of American thought; what a reader presumes will happen, doesn’t; the novel is not a cliffhanger – it drops the reader off a cliff. Drugs, murders, mysteries and above all `flava' color this tense little thriller delivered once again in the style of writing that keeps it real, keeps it pointed and poignant, and keeps it fascinating. Tony Lindsay has it down pat.

This is fresh and dynamic writing by a writer who has polished his skills in a genre he can claim as his own: he is at the top of his game