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Laws of Solomon

by Eriq La Salle

A former life catches up with a gardener seeking peace

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A former life catches up with a gardener seeking peace

Solomon has left behind a history as a child soldier, mercenary, and hit man, settling into a gardener’s routine in California. When violence on the grounds he tends puts a boy named Gaby in danger, protecting him draws Solomon back into a world he hoped to leave behind. Their journey, pursued by men intent on getting what they want, brings the novel’s central tension into focus: whether redemption can be earned, and what compassion may demand from someone shaped by violence. The description presents the story as a standalone crime novel, with found family and the struggle for peace woven into its action.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in crime fiction centered on a former hit man confronting his past.
  • Readers drawn to stories about protecting a child, found family, and hard-won redemption.

Themes

RedemptionFound familyCompassion amid violenceThe pursuit of peace

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This book can be read as a standalone

"An amazing read!" -- S.A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author

"Lush and brutal, a poem hiding out as a novel." -- Rachel Howzell Hall, New York Times bestselling author

Redemption isn't given. It's fought for.

After years of violence, Solomon leaves the brutal backdrop of New York and its underworld to find peace in California where he settles for the quiet life of a gardener defined by routine, restraint, and a fragile kind of peace that had alluded him. Having been a former child soldier, mercenary, and hit man, he is determined to put his past behind him. But as violence erupts on the grounds he tends, his hard-won tranquility shatters when he encounters a young boy named Gaby whose life is in danger.

Protecting the child pulls Solomon back into a world he swore he'd buried. As they set out on an unexpected journey, hunted by men who will stop at nothing to get what they want, Solomon must confront not only the threat closing in but the darkness he carries within.

Propulsive and deeply human, Laws of Solomon is a story of redemption, found family, and the cost of choosing compassion in a brutal world. In saving Gaby, Solomon may finally discover whether peace is something a man like him can earn--or something he must sacrifice everything to protect.

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