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Lightning menThomas Mullen

Lightning men

2017374 pages
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"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…

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7 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2018
    37 INK · 384 pages · 9781501138805
  • Other · English · 2018
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780349143101
  • Other · English · 2017
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780349143095
  • Other · English · 2017
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9781408710616
  • Other · English · 2017
    37 INK/Atria · 374 pages · 9781501138799
  • Other · English · 2017
    Atria Books · 9781501138812
Race relationsAfrican American policeFictionRacismHate crimesMystery & DetectivePolice ProceduralAfrican American