Michael Z. Lewin

UNDERDOG’s central character, Jan Moro, is what we might call homeless. But he doesn’t think of himself that way. He thinks of himself simply as an entrepreneur who travels light – free of the encumbrances of mortgages and house repairs and taxes the rest of it.

But one thing Jan does have is a quick eye for a profit-making opportunity, and one of those situations is what gets us going in this book.

In the “Boston Sunday Globe” Geoffrey Stokes wrote, “But be of good cheer, brothers and sisters, for a new Michael Z. Lewin has arrived. For…[years] Lewin has been quietly turning out a remarkable series of distinctly skewed detective novels set in Indianapolis. In the process, he’s developed a terrific repertory company, some of whom play significant roles in his latest, UNDERDOG… [Jan] Moro’s daily life is beautifully and unsentimentally captured, and the plot is Lewin’s usual surprise stew. So I would like to say that Lewin’s virtues have long been undervalued. He is as witty as Robert B Parker, as ingratiating as Sue Grafton and as crafty a plotter as either. Unfortunately I can’t… [because] the quote it lifted from a Washington Post review of a previous Lewin effort.”