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"A gripping, page-turning tale that takes one through bad lawyers and good ones, treachery and faith, pornography and preaching, torture and Homeland Security. Salvation Boulevard is a great and memorable read."
Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder, Four Days in November
"An adventure in action and the intellect, a tale of murder with the mystery of God at the center. A must read for fans of both crime novels and of the mysteries of philosophy."
Richard Kearney, The Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College, Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and the University of Nice. Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Ideas of Otherness
Beinhart gleefully smashes down the wall between cool--in the jazz sense of "cool"--cutting edge fiction and religious awareness. I judge writing by the bits that intersect my life. Where else does "End Times" fundamentalist theology of the "Rapture" collide so amusingly with detective fiction? Since I was raised in the American religious subculture which Salvation Boulevard (in parts) navigates, I say unequivocally--it's all true, even if this is fiction. It's wildly entertaining too!
Frank Schaeffer; Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
"Salvation Boulevard is dramatic and highly provocative. Larry Beinhart expertly crafts a tempestuous philosophical personal drama that will unquestionably motivate intense discussion, debate and critical thinking. Read Salvation Boulevard and you will be consumed in a thought provoking whirlwind. It's quite a significant read."
Robert K. Tanenbaum
Larry Beinhart's Salvation Boulevard, like his Wag The Dog and The Librarian, is a wild ride indeed. Intelligent, provocative, often outrageous, it pits a tough ex-cop turned born-again PI against what only looks like innocence, covering a dark world of power and treachery and deceit. It will grip you, first page to last.
Donald Westlake
In Orwellian times, fiction is often the only way to get the truth out. We are approaching such times in the United States, and Larry Beinhart masterfully alerts us to what depths our government has sunk. Salvation Boulevard is a quick paced and heart wrenching call to arms against the excesses our government has foisted upon “we the people.”
Ambassador Joseph Wilson; The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir
Who knew the Clash of Civilizations could be such a page-turner? "Why are we here" collides with "who done it" on Salvation Blvd. Fasten your seatbelts.
Jeff Cohen Cable New Confidential: My Misadventures in the Corporate Media; The Wizards of Media Oz
"Larry Beinhart wrote Wag the Dog, the definitive book on modern politics. With Salvation Boulevard he's written an entertaining, mesmerizing novel that is the defining text on God and contemporary religion."
Robert Leuci, Fence Jumpers, All the Centurions: A New York Cop Remembers His Years on the Street
"Larry Beinhart has written a provocative whodunit that also asks: And whose god did they do it for? Rich in irony, it's a wild ride through the topsy-turvy in which religion mixes with politics in post-Patriot Act America. Beinhart's hero, who has to sort it all out, is a wonderful, walking contradiction: a born-again, evangelical Christian private eye who is shadowed by doubt and temptation. Plunge in!"
Robert Dreyfuss Devils Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam