Rebel Soul

'With an incredible eye for the nuances of New Orleans, America’s most interesting city, Michael Allen Zell presents crime fiction with verve, grit, and tenderness.' ---Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of THE AMERICAN DAUGHTERS 'Zell demonstrates...like the best crime fiction, the story invests deeply in setting, and it succeeds by virtue of its author’s palpable love for New Orleans and the people who live there.' ---LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS 'What really keeps us turning pages is Zell’s authorial voice, his insights into human nature, and the dark sense of humor that comes out of observing city life.' ---THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE REBEL SOUL is the third and final book in the trilogy that began with THE LAST SHADOW and followed up with BLACK ICE. Maya’s been regrouping in the woods way down at the southern end of New Orleans. She returns for revenge against the Mafia.Think CREED meets KILL BILL with a fearless heroine in modern-day New Orleans. The Maya Gaines trilogy is a crime drama about a young woman becoming a warrior, rising up despite odds stacked against her, what happens to upend a new secure life, and to what extent she will go to avenge her family.From the prologue: 'Even a kid barely brought up in a shabby home on a bloody block in the sinking city knew the same thing the suits and the boots knew. The third act is where you get your lick back. It just got called different names by different people but had been happening in the same city in different decades with the same mindset and carried out differently. The New Orleans code. Messy. Tradition. Been that way.'