Righteous

"Joe Ide’s second book in a planned series features his hero, Isaiah Quintabe (IQ), a brilliant high school dropout who has morphed into a private eye for home folks whom the police can’t or won’t help. Righteous takes IQ to Las Vegas, where he fights off Chinese gangsters, searches for a DJ on the run from a loan shark and chips away at the mystery of who killed his adored big brother, Marcus, via a savage hit-and-run. It’s all spiked with Ide’s mordant observations on humanity’s darker impulses. Read slowly: Book 3 isn’t due till next year."