If You Had to Pull the Trigger, Who'd You Kill First?

Aug. 1, 2009 - PRLog -- They make you hate them. They make you love them. They make you want to have the magic to be right there with them to either slap their face or kiss them passionately. Good characters keep you interested enough to read books to the end, but great characters keep you asking for more. The new novel “The War for Miami” by Yasheve Miller is full of characters you befriend, characters you despise and characters that you just have to see what they're going to do next.

“Characters are usually the most important thing to me when I’m writing. When I was writing this book, I even said to myself that the city itself had to be a character. I’ve read so many essays about using the setting as a character that I was intrigued by the technique enough to try it,” said the author in a recent interview.

Critics are comparing this book to the likes of Mario Puzo’s “Godfather” and Graham Greene’s “Our Man in Havana.” This groundbreaking crime novel has moved from the heat of the Miami streets into the libraries and fallen right in your lap.  The War for Miami is the urban drama that you have been salivating to read.  The story that you will be raving about all summer.  The novel that has book clubs discussing the merits of friendship, betrayal, the often misguided understanding of love and will have you saying, “I wish he would have killed that $%#^!”

“Out of my first three books, this one is the best written. I wasn’t going for shock value like I did with the first two. I wanted to tell a story that I would enjoy,” said Miller.

The novel, “The War for Miami” is an intense thrill ride into Miami’s underworld. The main characters Benito Castillo, Riley Sanders, and Keon Lindsey are intertwined by the force of Riley’s manipulation and power schemes. This story takes off from the first chapter and increases in intensity, fueled by greed, betrayal and wrath.

“I do have a strange love affair with Miami. And at times it is unhealthy. For some reason when I’m there, the crazy comes out of me. I’m always doing something that I probably shouldn’t be involved in,” said Miller. “I always say that I can’t write about my life because it would be too boring for me. I’ve already done those things, but I found myself using my experiences to write this novel. I think that’s why people are responding so well to it. The passion is there.”

As a writer, Yasheve Miller began his writing career for a collegiate newspaper.  From there, he was hired as a writer for a fledgling magazine in Atlanta, Georgia.  He quit that and his day job to pursue marketing strategies for his first book.  For a few years, he wrote part-time as a freelancer for various publications.  Finally, he stepped out to start his own copywriting business for a global marketplace, to produce marketing material, organize branding strategies and ghostwrite non-fiction books.  His passion for telling a juicy story led him back to the fiction arena to produce The War for Miami.  Other books by Yasheve include Rigid and Moist.

For more information on this and other books by Yasheve Miller, please visit http://www.yasheve.com

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Yasheve Miller is a Marketing Specialist whose primary focus is to generate leads and convert sales for his clients. As the world's second best crime writer alive http://www.yasheve.com offers heart-stopping suspense thrillers.