The Black Stiletto: Black & White: A Novel [Paperback]

New York TimesandUSA Todaybest-selling author

The Black Stiletto returns to stalk the night

It's 1959, and Judy Cooper, the Black Stiletto, sets out to confront a dangerous gangster known as the heroin king of Harlem when the teenage daughter of her beloved martial arts instructor ends up a prisoner in an uptown narcotics den. The Stiletto has troubles of her own: a shady filmmaker is threatening to reveal her identity to the world; a close friend of her landlord and substitute father may be in cahoots with the Harlem criminals; she's fighting for racial equality; and she has fallen in love againthis time with an FBI agent who has standing orders to arrest her. Meanwhile the Stiletto's son faces his own blackmail crisis when he finds out that there is a second copy of an 8 mm film he found in his mother's strongboxshowing the Black Stiletto unmasked in a film studio dressing room. As he tries to stop the filmmaker's son's extortion plot, he learns that his daughter, Gina, has been brutally assaulted in New York City. The past and the present meet as two shattering climaxes converge.

Benson once again takes readers back to an era and makes it come alive by conveying the feeling through many different devices.The Black Stiletto: Black & Whiteshould please any of the millions of Spiderman and Batman fans.The Midwest Book Review

This second installment in theBlack Stilettoseries is just damn fun, effectively mixing the story of young, fearless Judy and the poignant struggle of Martin to protect his mother from an onslaught of publicity that she won't understand. Sheer Entertainment. Booklist

Benson'sThe Black Stiletto(2011) introduced masked crime fighter Judy Cooper, who fought crime, inflamed public imagination, and, like malÓ!