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Lightning men : a novel / Thomas Mullen.
Officer Denny Rakestraw and "Negro Officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in a 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501138799 (hc)
- Physical Description: 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First 37 Ink/Atria Book hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : 37 INK/Atria Books, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Illustrations on end pages. |
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| Subject: | African American police > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Atlanta (Ga.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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- 12 of 12 copies available at Sitka.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Teulon Library | FIC MULLEN (Text) | 3678707531 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Williams Lake Branch | MUL (Text) | 33923005889724 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Officers Smith, Rake and Boggs and their sergeant navigate volatile racial tensions in 1950 Atlanta, including Rake's once-white neighborhood's violent efforts to force out Smith's black family and an upsurge in drug territory wars. By the award-winning author ofThe Last Town on Earth . - Baker & Taylor
""Reads like the best of James Ellroy." --Publishers Weekly (starred review, on Darktown) "Mullen is a wonderful architect of intersecting plotlines and unexpected answers." --The Washington Post, on Darktown From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown. Officer Denny Rakestraw and "Negro Officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in a 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 orthe 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 James Ellroy and Dennis Lehane, Mullen demonstrates in Lightning Men why he's celebrated for writing crime fiction "with a nimble sense of history...quick on its feet and vividly drawn" (Dallas Morning News)"-- - Baker & Taylor
Officers Smith, Rake, and Boggs and their sergeant navigate volatile racial tensions in 1950 Atlanta, including Rake's once-white neighborhood's violent efforts to force out Smith's black family and an upsurge in drug territory wars. - Simon and Schuster
'Writes with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you.' 'the New York Times, on Darktown
'reads like the best of James Ellroy.' 'Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Darktown
'mullen is a wonderful architect of intersecting plotlines and unexpected answers.' 'the Washington Post, on Darktown
From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a 'combustible procedural that will knock the wind out of you' (The New York Times).
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 demonstrates in Lightning Men why he's celebrated for writing crime fiction 'with a nimble sense of history...quick on its feet and vividly drawn" (Dallas Morning News).
