Showing results by author "Thomas Mullen" in Crime Thrillers

Atlanta, 1948. In this city all crime is black and white. On one side of the tracks are the rich white neighbourhoods, on the other Darktown, the African American area guarded by the city's first black police force of only eight men. These cops are kept near powerless by the authorities: they can't arrest white suspects; they can't drive squad cars; they must operate out of a dingy basement. When a poor black woman is killed in Darktown having been last seen in a car with a rich white man, no one seems to care except for Boggs and Smith, two black cops.

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.

Diceva Faulkner che il Sud bisogna raccontarlo; che bisogna spiegare perché la gente vive lì, e anzi perché vive. Il Sud raccontato qui è quello della città di Atlanta del 1948, l'anno in cui, per la prima volta, a otto afroamericani fu concesso di arruolarsi nelle forze di polizia per pattugliare i quartieri abitati dalla propria gente.