Meet the Author
Laird Johnson Jr.
“Where love can be deadly—and every debt eventually comes due.”
Meet the Author
Laird Johnson Jr.
Laird Johnson Jr. is the author of COLLECT CALL, a cinematic crime novel set in the shadows of New Orleans. His writing moves with the rhythm of the city after dark: restless, seductive, and dangerous.
His storytelling lives where the music is loudest and the lights are dimmest: ambition, loyalty, love and betrayal in a city that rewards nerve and punishes hesitation.
The Storytelling
A voice shaped by the city after dark.
New Orleans, in full atmosphere
The music spilling out of doorways, the wet pavement, the heat that never quite breaks — the city is not a backdrop in these pages. It is a character with its own agenda.
Ambition and its arithmetic
Money is counted carefully here, and so is everything it costs. Every favor is a loan, every promise a liability, and the interest comes due at the worst possible moment.
Love on dangerous ground
Attraction in this world is not innocent. It is a negotiation between two people who know exactly what the other could take from them — and want it anyway.
Betrayal, earned
No one is betrayed by a stranger. The knife always comes from close range, which is what makes the consequences feel so personal.
Read COLLECT CALL tonight.
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