Author: Gary Hardwick
Publisher: Gary Hardwick
ISBN: 0985475900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Anger... Fire... and Murder. A boy is killed in 1967 Detroit after the worse riot in American history. The three white cops at the scene are exonerated. Robert Jackson, a black Vietnam vet is devastated by the death of his younger brother. Thomas Riley, one of the cops involved, harbors a terrible secret. Robert transforms into a deadly street detective, hounding his enemies but drowning his heart in darkness. Thomas fights back with equal measure but the struggle is turning his life to ruin. As each man becomes trapped in the mystery, the unrest of the decade threatens to destroy the nation, legendary leaders are assassinated and Motown's glorious music frames the turbulent picture. Robert moves closer to the truth, forcing Thomas to a dangerous confrontation. And just as both men look into the abyss, an event occurs which galvanizes the nation and uncovers the elusive killer and his shocking motive. But justice will carry a price that must be paid with the most precious of human currency. Dark Town Redemption is set against the epic backdrop of true events in the most violent and important year in 20th century America.
Dark Town Redemption
Author: Gary Hardwick
Publisher: Gary Hardwick
ISBN: 0985475900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Anger... Fire... and Murder. A boy is killed in 1967 Detroit after the worse riot in American history. The three white cops at the scene are exonerated. Robert Jackson, a black Vietnam vet is devastated by the death of his younger brother. Thomas Riley, one of the cops involved, harbors a terrible secret. Robert transforms into a deadly street detective, hounding his enemies but drowning his heart in darkness. Thomas fights back with equal measure but the struggle is turning his life to ruin. As each man becomes trapped in the mystery, the unrest of the decade threatens to destroy the nation, legendary leaders are assassinated and Motown's glorious music frames the turbulent picture. Robert moves closer to the truth, forcing Thomas to a dangerous confrontation. And just as both men look into the abyss, an event occurs which galvanizes the nation and uncovers the elusive killer and his shocking motive. But justice will carry a price that must be paid with the most precious of human currency. Dark Town Redemption is set against the epic backdrop of true events in the most violent and important year in 20th century America.
Publisher: Gary Hardwick
ISBN: 0985475900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Anger... Fire... and Murder. A boy is killed in 1967 Detroit after the worse riot in American history. The three white cops at the scene are exonerated. Robert Jackson, a black Vietnam vet is devastated by the death of his younger brother. Thomas Riley, one of the cops involved, harbors a terrible secret. Robert transforms into a deadly street detective, hounding his enemies but drowning his heart in darkness. Thomas fights back with equal measure but the struggle is turning his life to ruin. As each man becomes trapped in the mystery, the unrest of the decade threatens to destroy the nation, legendary leaders are assassinated and Motown's glorious music frames the turbulent picture. Robert moves closer to the truth, forcing Thomas to a dangerous confrontation. And just as both men look into the abyss, an event occurs which galvanizes the nation and uncovers the elusive killer and his shocking motive. But justice will carry a price that must be paid with the most precious of human currency. Dark Town Redemption is set against the epic backdrop of true events in the most violent and important year in 20th century America.
Lightning Men
Author: Thomas Mullen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501138812
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
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).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501138812
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
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).
Citycide
Author: Gary Hardwick
Publisher: Gary Hardwick
ISBN: 0985475919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Detective Danny Cavanaugh, the explosive hero of Color Of Justice returns in a riveting mystery that unites Gary Hardwick's Detroit Novel Series.A woman is brutally murdered. Danny Cavanaugh, a white cop raised in Detroit's black innercity gets the case. He soon uncovers a conspiracy that reaches from the Motor City's ravaged streets to the pinnacle of power. Detroit's newest mayor is young and promising but also arrogant and tragically flawed. He assigns Chief of Police Tony Hill (Cold Medina) to back Danny off the investigation but not before text messages between the mayor and the dead girl are uncovered.The sex-laced missives give political enemies the evidence for criminal charges against the mayor. Jesse King (Double Dead) prosecutes the case and the mayor hires prominent defense attorney Marshall Jackson (Supreme Justice) to stave off a municipal coup d'etat in the embattled city.Danny doggedly runs the case's twisted path, chasing shady suspects and deadly killers. In the process, he becomes marked for death. Danny takes the fight to the streets and discovers the steamy messages not only contain evidence to the murder, but the key to saving his beloved city.
Publisher: Gary Hardwick
ISBN: 0985475919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Detective Danny Cavanaugh, the explosive hero of Color Of Justice returns in a riveting mystery that unites Gary Hardwick's Detroit Novel Series.A woman is brutally murdered. Danny Cavanaugh, a white cop raised in Detroit's black innercity gets the case. He soon uncovers a conspiracy that reaches from the Motor City's ravaged streets to the pinnacle of power. Detroit's newest mayor is young and promising but also arrogant and tragically flawed. He assigns Chief of Police Tony Hill (Cold Medina) to back Danny off the investigation but not before text messages between the mayor and the dead girl are uncovered.The sex-laced missives give political enemies the evidence for criminal charges against the mayor. Jesse King (Double Dead) prosecutes the case and the mayor hires prominent defense attorney Marshall Jackson (Supreme Justice) to stave off a municipal coup d'etat in the embattled city.Danny doggedly runs the case's twisted path, chasing shady suspects and deadly killers. In the process, he becomes marked for death. Danny takes the fight to the streets and discovers the steamy messages not only contain evidence to the murder, but the key to saving his beloved city.
America's First Black Town
Author: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252025372
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua traces Brooklyn's transformation from a freedom village into a residential commuter satellite that supplied cheap labor to the city and the region.".
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252025372
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua traces Brooklyn's transformation from a freedom village into a residential commuter satellite that supplied cheap labor to the city and the region.".
The Executioner's Game
Author: Gary Hardwick
Publisher: Gary Hardwick
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Luther Green is the very best at what he does. But the mastery of his profession is nothing he can brag about. It's nothing for which he will ever be officially recognized and it will never earn him a large paycheck. But there is a high likelihood that Luther's proficiency at his job will get him killed. Luther Green is a government assassin. For more than a decade, he has traveled the world, surgically eliminating America's enemies, never questioning his orders while performing as reliably as death itself. But his new assignment threatens to change all that. Luther's superiors have designated his new target as Alex Deavers -- the agent who taught Luther everything he knows and a man now considered to be a rogue agent on the edge of insanity. For Luther, a man normally more concerned with determining the how of an assignment than the why, his new duty forces him to confront questions he's never before had to consider. Why is he being sent to kill someone on American soil when all of his previous assignments were done abroad? Why doesn't his agency notify the FBI? Perhaps most important, why does he get the feeling that his own agency is spying on him? As Luther seeks to uncover the clues that will lead him to his prey, he slowly realizes that Alex is on a mission of his own, playing a cat-and-mouse game with his former apprentice while setting in motion a plan that could kill millions. Luther begins to suspect that the only person who can give him the answers he needs is the psychotic madman he has been ordered to execute. Luther follows a perilous trail that takes him into the most dangerous territory he has ever encountered. He is just a pawn in a twisted chess match, but a pawn may transform itself into the game's most dominant weapon. Now he has just days to learn the rules and employ all of his skill and training to find the truth. But to defeat the deadly forces against him, Luther Green must win the most dangerous game of all.
Publisher: Gary Hardwick
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Luther Green is the very best at what he does. But the mastery of his profession is nothing he can brag about. It's nothing for which he will ever be officially recognized and it will never earn him a large paycheck. But there is a high likelihood that Luther's proficiency at his job will get him killed. Luther Green is a government assassin. For more than a decade, he has traveled the world, surgically eliminating America's enemies, never questioning his orders while performing as reliably as death itself. But his new assignment threatens to change all that. Luther's superiors have designated his new target as Alex Deavers -- the agent who taught Luther everything he knows and a man now considered to be a rogue agent on the edge of insanity. For Luther, a man normally more concerned with determining the how of an assignment than the why, his new duty forces him to confront questions he's never before had to consider. Why is he being sent to kill someone on American soil when all of his previous assignments were done abroad? Why doesn't his agency notify the FBI? Perhaps most important, why does he get the feeling that his own agency is spying on him? As Luther seeks to uncover the clues that will lead him to his prey, he slowly realizes that Alex is on a mission of his own, playing a cat-and-mouse game with his former apprentice while setting in motion a plan that could kill millions. Luther begins to suspect that the only person who can give him the answers he needs is the psychotic madman he has been ordered to execute. Luther follows a perilous trail that takes him into the most dangerous territory he has ever encountered. He is just a pawn in a twisted chess match, but a pawn may transform itself into the game's most dominant weapon. Now he has just days to learn the rules and employ all of his skill and training to find the truth. But to defeat the deadly forces against him, Luther Green must win the most dangerous game of all.
The American Game
Author: Gary Hardwick
Publisher: Gary Hardwick
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The event that changed the world has left a dangerous legacy and only one man stands in its way. Luther Green has survived the Executioner’s Game and gone back to work eliminating threats to America around the globe. When a trusted friend asks for his assistance in finding a government asset who faked his death on September 11th, Luther is drawn into another lethal game of cat and mouse, only this time, the fate of America hangs in the balance. The government asset is a Server, a man with perfect memory who has proof that America’s enemies are planning an even more lethal event that will forever change the nation. Luther has information that can undo the plot but when he is targeted by these powerful forces, he is left no choice but to use all of his training to eliminate the threat.
Publisher: Gary Hardwick
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The event that changed the world has left a dangerous legacy and only one man stands in its way. Luther Green has survived the Executioner’s Game and gone back to work eliminating threats to America around the globe. When a trusted friend asks for his assistance in finding a government asset who faked his death on September 11th, Luther is drawn into another lethal game of cat and mouse, only this time, the fate of America hangs in the balance. The government asset is a Server, a man with perfect memory who has proof that America’s enemies are planning an even more lethal event that will forever change the nation. Luther has information that can undo the plot but when he is targeted by these powerful forces, he is left no choice but to use all of his training to eliminate the threat.
Escape To Sex
Author: a.a. clifford
Publisher: HardBooks Publishing
ISBN: 1499608810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The year is 2270. Our world is a utopia filled with peace there is no war, suffering or disease. But if you do not have sex five times a day, you will die. People cannot feel the pleasure of sex and our emotions are murky muddles of confusion. Joe and Vella had the first recorded real sex experience in 150 years, filled with explosive sensation. They changed the world but doomed their lives. After several deaths and a desperate run for freedom, they were apprehended and imprisoned for life, sentenced to be sexual experiments forever. They are now incarcerated in a secret research facility with their son, who is simply called The Baby. In Escape To Sex, Joe and Vella make a daring escape and are on the run from the police, Joe’s genius ex-friend and a Global Police Detective named Randall Clickteen, who is legally dead. The couple run with the precious child and find an underworld filled with danger, delights and wonders no man has ever imagined. Joe must break back into New York to save his life, his child and perhaps the world. And along the way, he makes a discovery that challenges the very concept of sex itself. Escape To Sex is the long awaited sequel to his first novel, SexLife.
Publisher: HardBooks Publishing
ISBN: 1499608810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The year is 2270. Our world is a utopia filled with peace there is no war, suffering or disease. But if you do not have sex five times a day, you will die. People cannot feel the pleasure of sex and our emotions are murky muddles of confusion. Joe and Vella had the first recorded real sex experience in 150 years, filled with explosive sensation. They changed the world but doomed their lives. After several deaths and a desperate run for freedom, they were apprehended and imprisoned for life, sentenced to be sexual experiments forever. They are now incarcerated in a secret research facility with their son, who is simply called The Baby. In Escape To Sex, Joe and Vella make a daring escape and are on the run from the police, Joe’s genius ex-friend and a Global Police Detective named Randall Clickteen, who is legally dead. The couple run with the precious child and find an underworld filled with danger, delights and wonders no man has ever imagined. Joe must break back into New York to save his life, his child and perhaps the world. And along the way, he makes a discovery that challenges the very concept of sex itself. Escape To Sex is the long awaited sequel to his first novel, SexLife.
Darktown
Author: Thomas Mullen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150113387X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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. --
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150113387X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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. --
Night Side of Dark
Author: Caleb Pirtle III
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
American operative Ambrose Lincoln has no idea where he is or has been or where he's going. He believes he has been to the night side of dark, a place of the first death, from which no one can return. So why does he find himself on the bomb-ruined landscape of Poland, or has he been exiled to the second death? Lincoln only realizes, if the man in the shadows has not lied to him, that he must find an ancient religious painting that has been missing for centuries. The German Gestapo will pay a fortune to buy it, or take a man's life to get it. The painting, if legend holds true, is the German hierarchy's final and only chance to escape the onslaught of the war that is crumbling around their feet.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
American operative Ambrose Lincoln has no idea where he is or has been or where he's going. He believes he has been to the night side of dark, a place of the first death, from which no one can return. So why does he find himself on the bomb-ruined landscape of Poland, or has he been exiled to the second death? Lincoln only realizes, if the man in the shadows has not lied to him, that he must find an ancient religious painting that has been missing for centuries. The German Gestapo will pay a fortune to buy it, or take a man's life to get it. The painting, if legend holds true, is the German hierarchy's final and only chance to escape the onslaught of the war that is crumbling around their feet.
Subverting Scriptures
Author: B. Benedix
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101291
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This collection seeks to fill the interdisciplinary space that addresses when, why, and how writers strategically reference the Bible for subversive or re-evaluative purposes. It explores the specific biblical pieces used this subversion, and why they are used, with reference to many contemporary sources.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101291
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This collection seeks to fill the interdisciplinary space that addresses when, why, and how writers strategically reference the Bible for subversive or re-evaluative purposes. It explores the specific biblical pieces used this subversion, and why they are used, with reference to many contemporary sources.