Darktown

Author : Thomas Mullen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150113387X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darktown written by Thomas Mullen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, 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 arent allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. But they carry guns, and they must bring law enforcement to a deeply mistrustful community. When black a woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith take up the investigation on their own, as no one else seems to care. Their findings set 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 world--a world on the cusp of great change. --

Author : Thomas Mullen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501138812
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lightning Men written by Thomas Mullen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of “the most compelling new series in crime fiction” (Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author) comes “a sharply observed novel” (New York Times) that explores race, law enforcement, and justice in mid-century Atlanta. Officer Denny Rakestraw and “Negro Officers” Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It’s 1950 and racial tensions are simmering as black families, including Smith’s sister, begin moving into formerly all-white neighborhoods. When Rake’s brother-in-law launches a scheme to rally the Ku Klux Klan to “save” their neighborhood, his efforts spiral out of control, forcing Rake to choose between loyalty to family or the law. Across town, Boggs and Smith try to shut down the supply of white lightning and drugs into their territory, finding themselves up against more powerful foes than they’d expected. Battling corrupt cops and ex-cons, Nazi brown shirts and rogue Klansmen, the officers are drawn closer to the fires that threaten to consume the city once again. With echoes of Walter Mosley and Dennis Lehane, Mullen “expands the boundaries of crime fiction, weaving in eye-opening details from our checkered history” (Chicago Tribune).

Author : Wesley Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darktown Strutters written by Wesley Brown and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darktown Strutters is the story of Jim Crow, a remarkable dancer, born in slavery, who performs in minstrel shows, South and North, during the furious times of pre- and post- Civil War America. Touching, harrowing, and inspiring, Darktown Strutters is a unique novel of courage and pride from the author of Tragic Magic.

Author : Thomas Mullen
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 9780349144207
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Atlanta written by Thomas Mullen and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin Luther King Jnr's emergence. Atlanta, 1956. When Arthur Bishop, editor of Atlanta's leading black newspaper, is killed in his office, cop-turned-journalist Tommy Smith finds himself in the crosshairs of the racist cops he's been trying to avoid. To clear his name, he needs to learn more about the dangerous story Bishop had been working on. Meanwhile, Smith's ex-partner Lucius Boggs and white sergeant Joe McInnis - the only white cop in the black precinct - find themselves caught between meddling federal agents, racist detectives, and Communist activists as they try to solve the murder. With a young Rev. Martin Luther King Jnr making headlines of his own, and tensions in the city growing, Boggs and Smith find themselves back on the same side in a hunt for the truth that will put them both at risk. PRAISE FOR THE DARKTOWN SERIES 'A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment' Stephen King 'Superb' Ken Follett 'Magnificent and shocking' Sunday Times 'Written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you' New York Times

Author : Will Marion Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darktown Barbecue written by Will Marion Cook and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Mullen
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588365646
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Town on Earth written by Thomas Mullen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A town under quarantine during the 1918 flu epidemic must reckon with forces beyond their control in a powerful, sweeping novel of morality in a time of upheaval “An American variation on Albert Camus’ The Plague.”—Chicago Tribune NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • WINNER OF THE JAMES FENIMORE COOPER PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION Deep in the mist-shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest is a small mill town called Commonwealth, conceived as a haven for workers weary of exploitation. For Philip Worthy, the adopted son of the town’s founder, it is a haven in another sense—as the first place in his life he’s had a loving family to call his own. And yet, the ideals that define this outpost are being threatened from all sides. A world war is raging, and with the fear of spies rampant, the loyalty of all Americans is coming under scrutiny. Meanwhile, another shadow has fallen across the region in the form of a deadly virus striking down vast swaths of surrounding communities. When Commonwealth votes to quarantine itself against contagion, guards are posted at the single road leading in and out of town, and Philip Worthy is among them. He will be unlucky enough to be on duty when a cold, hungry, tired—and apparently ill—soldier presents himself at the town’s doorstep begging for sanctuary. The encounter that ensues, and the shots that are fired, will have deafening reverberations throughout Commonwealth, escalating until every human value—love, patriotism, community, family, friendship—not to mention the town’s very survival, is imperiled. Inspired by a little-known historical footnote regarding towns that quarantined themselves during the 1918 epidemic, The Last Town on Earth is a remarkably moving and accomplished debut.

Author : Shelton Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darktown Strutters' Ball written by Shelton Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bert Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darktown Poker Club written by Bert Williams and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Berni Barbour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darktown Shimmie Ball written by J. Berni Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonny Hannah
Publisher : Merrell
ISBN 13 : 9781858946191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonny Hannah written by Jonny Hannah and published by Merrell. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first book devoted to the popular illustrator Jonny Hannah, which presents some 200 of his prints and paintings, including brand-new work created for this volume. This is an intriguing, irreverent miscellany covering many of Hannah's favourite themes, including jazz, folk, the sea, space and shops."--Provided by publisher.