Leaward, KS: Brash Books, (2014) dj. An LA Noir thriller - a fast and furious novel - sometimes violent, sometimes funny - set in Hollywood, featuring Ronnie Deal, who finds her career detoured when she intervenes in a drug deal gone bad. A reprint under his own name of the first book written by award-winning writer Gar Anthony Haywood under the Ray Shannon pseudonym and originally published in 2004. . 255 pp. ISBN: 978-1941298459.