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Lightning Men

By: Thomas Mullen
Narrated by: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
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Lightning Men follows the multiaward-nominated, highly acclaimed crime debut Darktown into a city on the brink of huge and violent change - and full of secrets.

Atlanta, 1950. Crime divides; the fight unites. Officer Denny Rakestraw and 'Negro Officers' Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith face the Klan, gangs and family warfare in a rapidly changing Atlanta. Black 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. Meanwhile, Boggs has outraged his preacher father by courting a domestic, whose dangerous ex-boyfriend is then released from prison. As Boggs, Smith, and their all-black precinct contend with violent drug dealers fighting for turf in new territory, their personal dramas draw them closer to the fires that threaten to consume Atlanta once again.

©2018 Thomas Mullen (P)2017 Simon & Schuster Audio Crime Crime Thrillers Historical Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Fiction Law
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This is a highly credible follow up to the excellent 'Darktown' and, again, it is as much social commentary as it is thriller. That such racism and corruption existed at all, let alone in the police force, is a shocking reminder of the awfulness of life for some people simply for not being white. Woven in to this is a terrific thriller with convincing protagonists doing their very best against all the odds.

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