On the Nickel (30 page)

All statistics and other information on homelessness in Los Angeles come from the following sources:

Anderson, Troy, ‘Homeless Plan Stirs Debate Among Board [of Supervisors],'
Los Angeles Daily News,
March 28, 2006.

Bartholomew, Dana, ‘Transients Hope to Get Back into Stable Life,'
Los Angeles Daily News,
April 7, 2006.

Blasi, Gary, Michael Dear and Jennifer Wolch, ‘5 Steps to Get Out of Skid Row,'
LA Times,
December 31, 2006.

Blasi, Gary, ‘Policing Our Way Out of Homelessness? The First Year of the Safer Cities Initiative on Skid Row,'
The UCLA School of Law Fact Investigation Clinic,
September 24, 2007.

California Budget Project,
A Generation of Widening Inequality,
Sacramento, CA, August 2007.

Cousineau, Michael R., ‘Dumping the Homeless on Hospitals,'
LA Times,
December 31, 2006.

DiMassa, Cara Mia, ‘L.A. County OKs “Historic” Homeless Plan,'
LA Times
,
April 5, 2006.

DiMassa, Cara Mia and Richard Winton, ‘Possible Homeless Centers Identified,'
LA Times,
April 6, 2006.

Fry, Richard, ‘Labor Market Outcomes of Hispanics by Generation,'
ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, Institute for Urban and Minority Education,
October 10, 2003.

Geis, Sonya, ‘L.A. Police Initiative Thins Out Skid Row,'
Washington Post,
March 15, 2007.

George, Evan, ‘Teaching Junkies to Save Each Other's Lives,'
Los Angeles Daily Journal,
January 17, 2008.

Hoag, Christina, ‘L.A. Seeing More People Living Out of Their Cars,'
TIME
Magazine, June 23, 2008.

Inter-University Consortium Against Homelessness,
2008 Report Card On Homelessness In Los Angeles,
University of Southern California, June 2008.

Jordan, Miriam, ‘Blacks vs. Latinos at Work,'
The Wall Street Journal,
January 24, 2006.

Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, ‘2007 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count,' Los Angeles, CA 90013.

Tong, Eugene, ‘Homeless Plan Raises Optimism: New County Step Watched,'
Los Angeles Daily News,
April 6. 2006.

Valle, Ramón, ‘Los Angeles: City of the Stars Becomes US Homeless Capital,'
World Socialist Web Site,
October 17, 2005.

Villaraigosa, Antonio (Mayor) and Jan Perry (Councilwoman), ‘Appraising the County's Homeless Plan,' (Op-Ed)
LA Times,
April 6, 2006.

JOHN SHANNON
On the Nickel

Private Investigator Jack Liffey has been confined to a wheelchair, unable to walk or speak, for more than a month due to a freak accident that may have damaged his spine. So when an old friend tries to contact Jack to ask him for help in finding his missing sixteen-year-old son, Jack's teenage daughter, Maeve, intercepts the call and decides to take on the case.

Maeve's intuition leads her to downtown LA; however, it's not long before she finds herself caught up in a deadly battle between hired thugs and the occupants of a crumbling tenement building that has been earmarked for redevelopment by an unscrupulous investor. Trapped, she desperately needs help, but with Jack out of action it is up to his partner Gloria, a LAPD Sergeant, to come to the rescue.

As Gloria desperately searches Skid Row, she comes across one of Jack's ex-lovers, now a nun working at a homeless shelter, who provides vital information. But a fresh disaster befalls Jack and soon everything, lives included, hangs in the balance...

John Shanon
is one of the America's leading writers of neo-noir, and his Jack Liffey series of novels is one of the most critically praised mystery series in the genre. He lives in Los Angeles.

For further information please Visit:

www.JackLiffey.com