RACISM, BLACKMAIL & GUILTY SECRETS
ARE REVEALED IN NEW ORLEANS

Thomas Zigal's newest offering, The White League, to
be published by Toby Press in Feb 2005

"Thomas Zigal delivers the straight goods: deft plot, intriguing characters and fine writing. Zigal is always pure reading pleasure." - Scott Turow

Blackmail, a secret organization hiding within the elite society of New Orleans, and a white supremacist running for governor of Louisiana are the key ingredients in this fine Southern crawfish boil of a novel about guilt, privilege and racism in one of America's most exotic cities.

In THE WHITE LEAGUE by Thomas Zigal, coffee magnate Paul Blanchard's comfortable world is turned upside down when his old fraternity brother, Mark Morvant, threatens to expose the secret that Paul has been harboring for twenty years-unless he bankrolls Morvant's bid for governor. In addition, Morvant demands that Paul secure the financial and political backing of a clandestine organization called the White League-a group that he maintains is the real power in New Orleans, and has been for more than a century. Despite Paul's avowed belief that the group no longer exists, he has just three weeks to bring the League on board the campaign, or Morvant will destroy him.

Blanchard's desperate pursuit of the truth uncovers family secrets, historical intrigue, and the underworld machinations of a dangerous group that has no qualms about committing murder in order to maintain power. As his well-ordered world begins to collapse, Paul struggles with the moral consequences of his own past. Now it is up to him to placate Morvant, outsmart the White League, and save his family, his reputation, and ultimately, his life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Thomas Zigal is the author of the critically acclaimed Kurt Muller mystery series set in Aspen, Colorado. He is a graduate of the Stanford Writing Program and has published short stories and book reviews in literary magazines and fiction anthologies for the past thirty years. He grew up in Louisiana and on the Texas Gulf Coast and now lives in Austin, Texas.