The Downlow Saga

About the Book

Abuser and loser Eugene “Downlow” Colston is left with tormenting, bitter defeatism and relentless despair as a total failure, brokenhearted and frustrated by his fed-up former fiancée. She beat him badly during a spat and, later, legally, in a court case against her. She broke their engagement and his nose, tossed his engagement ring in his female-battered face, and then walked out on him forever. Now all alone, plagued by racism, driven to liquor in a fruitless effort to drown his inner hellish pain, disrespected, ridiculed, and rejected as a miserable, worthless, no sex–getting, low-down black ghetto scumbag, Downlow finds redemption and purpose in armed security guard work. The Compton man also finds himself amid a wave of terrorist suicide bombings and street violence waged by the vicious Tammerack Tigers gang. Downlow manages to inspire both the black community and his fellow security officers to stand up for what is right in the face of the warring, fanatical criminal gang’s bloody reign of terror in 1989 South Central Los Angeles.

About the Author

A native of Los Angeles, California, McCormick began his literary career in 1971 at Foshay Junior High School (now the Foshay Learning Center). He was a writer for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the Compton Bulletin and a few other publications. McCormick was executive editor of the now-defunct Los Angeles Balance News newspaper in 1988. He graudated from Los Angeles City College (Associate of Arts degree, journalism) in May, 1986. McCormick won Honorable Mention in the 2008 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards for his first novel, Tales of Tyrone (2006, Authorhouse) and two other awards in journalism while he attended college.