β Scribed by Mullen, Thomas
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a βcombustible procedural that will knock the wind out of youβ (The New York Times).
Officer Denny Rakestraw, βNegro Officersβ Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, and Sergeant McInnis have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. Itβs 1950 and color lines are shifting and racial tensions are simmering. Black familiesβincluding Smithβs sister and brother-in-lawβare moving into Rakeβs formerly all-white neighborhood, leading some residents to raise money to buy them out, while others advocate a more violent solution. Rakeβs brother-in-law, Dale, a proud Klansman, launches a scheme to rally his fellow Kluxers to save their neighborhood. When those efforts spiral out of control and leave a man dead, Rake is forced to choose between loyalty to family or the law.
He isnβt the only one with family troubles. Boggs has outraged his preacher father by courting a domestic, and now her ex-boyfriend has been released from prison. As Boggs, Smith, and their all-black precinct contend with violent drug dealers fighting for turf in new territory, their personal dramas draw them closer to the fires that threaten to consume Atlanta once again.
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