âOne incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible proceduralâ¦written with a ferocious passion thatâll knock the wind out of you.â âThe New York Times Book Review
âFine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime in a tale that connects an overlooked chapter of history to our own continuing struggles with race today.â âCharles Frazier, bestselling author of Cold Mountain
âThis page-turner reads like the best of James Ellroy.â âPublishers Weekly, starred review
âIn the way the story is told coupled with its heightened racial context, Darktown reminded me of Walter Mosley or a George Pelecanos novel.â âMilwaukee Journal Sentinel
âHigh-qualityâ¦crime fiction with a nimble sense of historyâ¦quick on its feet and vividly drawn.â âDallas Morning News
âSome books educate, some books entertain, Thomas Mullenâs Darktown is the rare book that does both.â âHuffington Post
The award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth delivers a riveting and elegant police procedural set in 1948 Atlanta, exploring a murder, corrupt police, and strained race relations that feels ripped from today's headlines.
Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers; they arenât allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters.
When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect white cops are behind it. Their investigation sets them up against a brutal cop, Dunlow, who has long run the neighborhood as his own, and his partner, Rakestraw, a young progressive who may or may not be willing to make allies across color lines. Among shady moonshiners, duplicitous madams, crooked lawmen, and the constant restrictions of Jim Crow, Boggs and Smith will risk their new jobs, and their lives, while navigating a dangerous worldâa world on the cusp of great change.
Set in the postwar, pre-civil rights South, and evoking the socially resonant and morally complex crime novels of Dennis Lehane and Walter Mosley, Darktown is a vivid, smart, intricately plotted crime saga that explores the timely issues of race, law enforcement, and the uneven scales of justice.
Categories:
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Thrillers & Suspense
- Historical
- Thrillers & Suspense
Publisher : 37 Ink
Author : Mullen, Thomas
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2016-09-13
Number Of Pages : 384
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1501133861
ISBN-13 : 9781501133862
Item weight : 1.1 lb
Dimensions : 1.42 in x 6.14 in x 9.06 in
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