Righteous

Joe Ide is a Japanese American author, born in 1959. He grew up surrounded by the gangs and street crime of South Central Los Angeles, California. He enjoyed reading the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and had read them multiple times before he was in eighth grade. He is a college graduate and went on to get a graduate degree in education. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a school teacher, college lecturer, business consultant, and other jobs. One of those jobs was writing screenplays for major studios. He went on to write his debut novel, IQ, published in 2016. It won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. His second book is Righteous, published in 2017.

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