{"product_id":"lightning-men-darktown-9780349143101","title":"Lightning Men Darktown","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eStephen King on \u003ci\u003eDarktown\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLightning Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e follows the multi-award-nominated, highly acclaimed crime debut \u003ci\u003eDarktown\u003c\/i\u003e into a city on the brink of huge and violent change - and full of secrets. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta, 1950. Crime divides, the fight unites. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOfficer Denny Rakestraw and ''Negro Officers'' Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith face the Klan, gangs and family warfare in a rapidly changing Atlanta.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack families - including Smith''s sister and brother-in-law - are moving into Rake''s formerly all-white neighbourhood, leading his brother-in-law, a proud Klansman, to launch a scheme to ''save'' their streets. When those efforts leave a man dead, Rake is forced to choose between loyalty to family or the law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meanwhile, Boggs has outraged his preacher father by courting a domestic, whose dangerous ex-boyfriend is then re\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMullen blends the classic ingredients of det-fic noir with a well-researched and searing portrayal of pre-civil rights racial division. \u003cb\u003eMagnificent and shocking\u003c\/b\u003e - Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible procedural, set in the city's rigidly segregated black neighborhoods during the pre-civil-rights era and \u003cb\u003ewritten with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you\u003c\/b\u003e. - New York Times\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA terrific story\u003c\/b\u003e that raises issues that have not vanished. - The Times\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the very first page of \u003ci\u003eDarktown\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eI was stunned, mesmerized, and instantly a huge fan of Tom Mullen\u003c\/b\u003e.  Beyond the history and the thrilling mystery, the book's soul lies in the burgeoning partnership (and dare I say friendship) at the center of the book. It's a reminder of the ties that cut across race in America.  There is nothing I love more in a book than hope. - Attica Locke, author of Black Water Rising\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime\u003c\/b\u003e in a tale that connects an overlooked chapter of history to our own continuing struggles with race today - Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884016120151,"sku":"9780349143101","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349143101.jpg?v=1722530050","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lightning-men-darktown-9780349143101","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}