Download or read book Dark Town Redemption written by Gary Hardwick and published by Gary Hardwick. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Lightning Men written by Thomas Mullen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Download or read book Citycide written by Gary Hardwick and published by Gary Hardwick. This book was released on 2023-02-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book America s First Black Town written by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.".
Download or read book The Executioner s Game written by Gary Hardwick and published by Gary Hardwick. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The American Game written by Gary Hardwick and published by Gary Hardwick. This book was released on 2017-03-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Escape To Sex written by a.a. clifford and published by HardBooks Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Darktown written by Thomas Mullen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. --
Download or read book Night Side of Dark written by Caleb Pirtle III and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Subverting Scriptures written by B. Benedix and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture written by Grégory Pierrot and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Ta-Nehisi Coates-authored Black Panther comic book series (2016); recent films Django Unchained (2012) and The Birth of a Nation (2016); Nate Parker's cinematic imagining of the Nat Turner rebellion; and screen adaptations of Marvel's Luke Cage (2016) and Black Panther (2018); violent black redeemers have rarely been so present in mainstream Western culture. Grégory Pierrot argues, however, that the black avenger has always been with us: the trope has fired the news and imaginations of the United States and the larger Atlantic World for three centuries. The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas. Even as he is portrayed as a heathen and a barbarian, his values-honor, loyalty, love-reflect his ties to the West. Yet being racially different, he cannot belong, and his qualities in turn make him an anomaly among black people. The black avenger is thus a liminal figure defining racial borders. Where his body lies, lies the color line. Regularly throughout the modern era and to this day, variations on the trope have contributed to defining race in the Atlantic World and thwarting the constitution of a black polity. Pierrot's The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture studies this cultural history, examining a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news, and historical writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915. Pierrot argues that this Western archetype plays an essential role in helping exclusive, hostile understandings of racial belonging become normalized in the collective consciousness of Atlantic nations. His study follows important articulations of the figure and how it has shifted based on historical and cultural contexts.
Download or read book In My Father s House Are Many Mansions written by Orville Vernon Burton and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on every household in this large rural community, he tests the many generalizations about southern black and white famil
Download or read book The Black O written by Steve Watkins and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988 several white managers of the Shoney’s restaurant chain protested against the company’s discriminatory hiring practices, including an order to blacken the “O” in “Shoney’s” on minorities’ job applications so that the marked forms could be discarded. When the managers refused to comply, they lost their jobs but not their resolve—they sued the company. Their case grew into the largest racial job discrimination class action lawsuit of its time. Shoney’s eventually offered to settle out of court, and the nearly 21,000 claimants divided a $132.5 million settlement, bringing to an abrupt end a landmark case that changed corporate attitudes nationwide. The Black O is a fascinating, behind-the-scenes story populated with many unforgettable characters, including civil rights lawyer Tommy Warren, the former college football star and convicted felon who took the case; Ray Danner, the ironfisted former CEO who developed the Shoney’s concept; and Justice Clarence Thomas, former head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which sat idly by for years while complaints mounted against Shoney’s. The Black O speaks to an issue that continues to have great urgency, serving as a stark refutation that the civil rights movement eliminated systemic discrimination from the workplace.
Download or read book Black River written by S. M. Hulse and published by HMH. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of sorrow and suspense, set in rural Montana, is “a complex and powerful story—put Black River on the must-read list” (The Seattle Times). Wes Carver returns to his hometown—Black River, Montana—with two things: his wife’s ashes and a letter from the parole board. The convict who once held him hostage during a prison riot is up for release. For years, Wes earned his living as a correction officer and found his joy playing the fiddle. But the uprising shook Wes’s faith and robbed him of his music; now he must decide if his attacker should walk free. With “lovely rhythms, spare language, tenderness, and flashes of rage,” S. M. Hulse shows us the heart and darkness of an American town, and one man’s struggle to find forgiveness in the wake of evil (Los Angeles Review of Books).
Download or read book CSB Seven Arrows Bible Black LeatherTouch written by CSB Bibles by Holman and published by Holman Bible Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The How-to Study Bible How do you approach your daily reading of God’s Word? And where do you start? Leveraging the research and success of the Seven Arrows study method, the CSB Seven Arrows Bible walks readers through 150 passages, with additional insights into 600 other passages. By using the arrows as a guide, readers will learn to ask and answer questions such as What does this passage tell us about God? How does this passage change the way I relate to people? and How does this passage prompt me to pray? Clear, orderly, and memorable, this guide for studying any passage of Scripture will equip you to love and apply God’s Word for the rest of your life. FEATURES: General Bible introduction with explanation of the Seven Arrows reading method Introductions for each book of the Bible 150 passages with a full page application of all Seven Arrows 600 passages with a highlight on one of the Seven Arrows Bible reading plan Maps Bible concordance Full text of the Christian Standard Bible The CSB Seven Arrows Bible features the readable, faithful-to-the- original text of the Christian Standard Bible. The CSB’s optimal blend of accuracy and readability makes it perfectly suited for a lifetime of studying, memorizing, and sharing.
Download or read book A Blues Singer to Redeem Him written by Elle Jackson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nights at the speakeasy… Spark a dangerous romance Evelyn Laroque’s performances at Lorenzo De Luca’s Kansas City blues club draw even bigger crowds than his bootleg whiskey. And every time he hears her voice, Lorenzo falls a little harder for the achingly beautiful blues singer. When Evelyn becomes a target for the KKK, Lorenzo faces an impossible choice. Will this son of a gangster turn to the mob if it’s the only way to protect the woman he loves? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.
Download or read book CSB Ultrathin Reference Bible Black LeatherTouch Indexed written by CSB Bibles by Holman and published by Holman Bible Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CSB Ultrathin Reference Bible is easy-to-carry and easy-to-read, featuring a robust center-column, cross-reference system, 8.5-point type, and an ultrathin design which slips easily into a purse, briefcase, or backpack. As America’s oldest Bible Publisher, Holman is a pioneer in the development of Ultrathin Bibles, giving careful attention to breakthroughs in typography and paper manufacturing to produce a Bible that combines readability, portability, and durability. Features include: Smyth-sewn binding, Presentation page, Two-column text, Center-column cross references, Topical subheadings, Words of Christ in red, 8.5-point type, Concordance, Full-color maps, and more. The CSB Ultrathin Reference Bible features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible (CSB). The CSB stays as literal as possible to the Bible's original meaning without sacrificing clarity, making it easier to engage with Scripture's life-transforming message and to share it with others.
