Dennis Buffalo is found murdered on the Belle Mot Reservation. Naked, posed, and impaled to a wall with a fishing spear, Dennis's body seems to reveal an obvious narrative: racial anger, tribal conflict, and simmering resentment. Yet, Irving Goldstein knows when a murder scene is manufactured. This one is too deliberate, too symbolic, too amateurish. As he peels away layers, Irving discovers a landscape muddled with secrecy, political constraints, sexual perversity, Prague underworld, Mafia dons, and buried loyalties. Tribal leaders want quiet. Local law enforcement wants a scapegoat. The oligarchy cares more about protecting its interests than about justice. Every clue drags Irving into the mire of corruption, violence, and the demons of the past.

Bleak, sharp, and morally charged, Solitary Citadel is a dark thriller of exile, alienation, and the brutal cost of Irving Goldstein’s immutable quest to uncover the truth.

• ISBN: 9781964354118

• LOC: 2026910498