A thrilling look at love gone bad ... at revenge bathed in blood ... at the murderous cults of the Caribbean ... when the sins of the father are visited upon the children.

Imagine that your best friend has been brutally slaughtered by a sadistic serial killer ...

Imagine that the killer has left a note written in your friend's blood, promising you'll be his next victim ...

What would you do?!

This is the start to Alex Abella's latest novel, Dead of Night, a haunting, heart-pounding thriller that will keep you glued to the very last page.

		"Dead of Night is a haunted and haunting tale -- a real nightmare maker. Abella knows his santería and the dark arts of the Caribbean better than anyone I know. Yet, set within this violent story are veins of gentleness and understanding that make it all the richer. To walk into Abella's world is to say goodbye to the one we think we know, and to see what the powers of darkness can make real."
		-- T. Jefferson Parker, author of Where Serpents Lie

A follow-up to Abella's widely acclaimed novel The Killing of the Saints, Dead of Night follows the adventures of Charlie Morell, an attorney and sometime private eye whose life keeps bumping against the primordial evil that cloaks itself under the guise of old African cults.

It all starts at the funeral of Charlie's estranged mother, when a mysterious woman asks Charlie to look for her godson, Ricardo Díaz, who's "gone over to the other side." When Charlie realizes that the man who killed his best friend and Díaz are one and the same, he gives chase. Determined never to be a victim, Charlie pursues Díaz all the way into the searing deserts of Baja California and back to the teeming Latino ghettoes of Los Angeles, where Charlie ultimately triumphs, putting the villain back in jail.

But when Charlie is recruited by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office to become a prosecutor in the case, Charlie finds he got more than bargained for and that the whole thing might be a skein of deception aimed at freeing Díaz once more.

Charlie soon realizes that only by delving into his own tortured past -- a violent father, a promiscuous sister, a masochistic mother -- can he find the weapon to defeat the evil that is Díaz and save the lives of those Charlie loves the most.

But Dead of Night is more than just a thriller. It's also an intriguing look at Cuban-American culture, its music, its religions, its sabor, the spicy flavor of Cuba. Dead of Night explores the price of success in America for today's Cubans, one of the most prosperous and accomplished groups of immigrants ever to make it in the United States.