{"product_id":"darktown-a-novelvolume-1-9781501133879","title":"Darktown: A Novelvolume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"One incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible procedural...written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime in a tale that connects an overlooked chapter of history to our own continuing struggles with race today.\" --Charles Frazier, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCold Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This page-turner reads like the best of James Ellroy.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In the way the story is told coupled with its heightened racial context, \u003ci\u003eDarktown \u003c\/i\u003ereminded me of Walter Mosley or a George Pelecanos novel.\" --\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"High-quality...crime fiction with a nimble sense of history...quick on its feet and vividly drawn.\" --\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Some books educate, some books entertain, Thomas Mullen's \u003ci\u003eDarktown \u003c\/i\u003eis the rare book that does both.\" --\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward-winning author Thomas Mullen is a \"wonderful architect of intersecting plotlines and unexpected answers\"(\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) in this timely and provocative mystery and brilliant exploration of race, law enforcement, and justice in 1940s Atlanta.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eResponding 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 aren't allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When a woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect white cops are behind it. Their investigation sets 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A vivid, smart, intricately plotted crime saga that explores the timely issues of race, law enforcement, and the uneven scales of justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMullen, Thomas:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Thomas Mullen is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lightning Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Darktown\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Town on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e. He was also awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction for \u003ci\u003eThe Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Revisionists\u003c\/i\u003e. His works have been named to Year's Best lists by \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. His stories and essays have been published in \u003ci\u003eGrantland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and his \u003ci\u003eAtlanta Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e true crime story about a novelist\/con man won the City and Regional Magazine Award for Best Feature. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and sons.","brand":"37 Ink","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650001342738,"sku":"9781501133879","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cdee0d00-ceb7-4a78-9080-449e44b4be25.jpg?v=1733280018","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/darktown-a-novelvolume-1-9781501133879","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}