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Disillusioned columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his longtime editor, Bob Carson, is summarily fired within hours of the column's publication. While a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint, the latter is abducted by two improbable but still dangerous white supremacists.

Flying to war torn Vietnam, Patch Kincaid and Ray Meinkewitz are part of a secret plan, Operation Bluebird Rescue, to extricate Commander Phineas Beauregard from an American prison near Saigon and question Winkamp, an important player in the death of President Kennedy. An extensive riot ensues as Patch’s flying skills are challenged as Patch, Phinney, and Meinkewitz attempt to flee the country and top CIA operative Baker Finch.

A yacht races to outrun a tsunami. A young man jailed on a drug charge forms a relationship with his cellmate that is by turns tender and brutal. A family buys a rural slaughterhouse, and tensions quickly escalate between them and their religious neighbors. A teen raised by his eccentric gay father, a Turkish immigrant, finds his life fractured by violence. A fictionalized Coretta Scott King, surveilled and harassed by the FBI, considers the costs of her life with her husband. Here Is What You Do is a bravura, far-ranging collection, its stories linked by sorrow and latent hope.

Moved by the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., Lorenzo "Guts" Tolliver decides to abandon his career as a professional leg breaker and pursue a life of quiet moments and generous helpings of banana pudding in the company of his new, sensuous lover.

Der sprachgewaltige Erzähler Feridun Zaimoglu über Martin Luther. Anno Domini 1521: Martin Luther ist auf die Wartburg gebracht worden und in die Mönchszelle zurückgekehrt. Ausgerechnet ein katholischer Landsknecht soll ihn, den Geächteten, auf Befehl des Kurfürsten vor Anschlägen auf Leib und Leben schützen. Doch die Anfechtungen des alten Feindes, des Satans, stellen eine noch größere Gefahr dar. Mit klingender Sprache, erstaunlichem Kenntnisreichtum und dramatischer Zuspitzung erzählt Feridun Zaimoglu von einem großen Deutschen, einer Zeit im Umbruch und der Macht und Ohnmacht des Glaubens.