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Title: The Cop Who Saw Too Much: Carl Shannon's Howard Justice: The Rise of HJ Is the Crime Thriller Nobody Asked For, and Everyone Needs

Tampa, Florida, United States, 20th May 2026 - There is a certain kind of crime writer you can spot inside two paragraphs. The kind who has actually been in the room. Who knows what a parole office smells like at four in the afternoon, who has watched a confession die in someone's throat, who understands that the worst people in any system are almost never the ones in handcuffs. Carl Shannon is that kind of writer. And his new novel, Howard Justice: The Rise of HJ, is the proof.It is out now on Amazon KDP and Barnes & Noble, and frankly, it is not a polite book. It does not want to be your weekend escape. It wants to grab you by the collar.Before it ever existed as a novel, this story was already winning awards. Shannon's screenplay version of Howard Justice walked into the 2024 Top Indie Film Awards and walked back out with Best Feature Script and Best Writing in the same night. Two wins. One story. A clear shot across the bow of every studio executive currently sitting on a stack of forgettable cop dramas.But the page is where Shannon really lets the gloves come off.The novel opens on Jasmin Peterson, a parole agent in California who is about to make the kind of decision that doesn't just bend a life, it breaks one. The book then jumps forward in time and drops us next to her son, Howard, a young man who walks into the same brutal system she once worked inside. Howard thinks he's there to fix things. He has no clue he is already a loaded weapon. His mother built him out of the wreckage she carried home from work, and now somebody is about to pull the trigger.What unfolds is part crime saga, part character study, and part autopsy of the American justice machine. Shannon takes you into Beverly Hills mansions where the real money is hidden underneath the marble. Into...

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