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Willie Dark colored is a paper reporter that has squandered a lot of things in his life - his liver organ, his lungs, several former wives, and a floundering child can all verify his mistreatment. He's blessed to be used, having managed to drink and smart-talk his way out of a nice, cushy job covering - and partying with - the politicians down at the capitol. Now he's back again on the night time cops' combat, right where he started out when he came to help the Richmond paper almost 30 years back. The thing Willie's always had going for him, though - all the way back to his hardscrabble days as a mixed-race kid on Oregon Hill, where white was the principal color and fighting was everyone's favorite pastime - is grit. His mom, the drug-addled Peggy, offered him that if nothing else. He never guaranteed down then, and he shows no symptoms of changing. Whenever a coed at the local university or college where Willie's child is a perpetual learner is murdered, her headless body found along the South Anna River, the hapless alleged killer is arrested within days and nights. Everyone appears to think the truth is sealed. But Willie, up against the requests and advice of his bosses at the paper, the authorities, and just about everybody else, doesn't think the truth is solved at all and embarks on a one-man crusade to do what he's always done: Find the story. Along the way, Willie works afoul of David Junior Shiflett, a headache from his youngsters who's now a city cop, and awakens another dark make, one everyone thought disappeared long ago. And a score created in the car parking lot of any Oregon Hill beverage joint 40 years back will finally be settled. The simple truth is out there, and Willie Black's heading to dig it up - or perish trying. Howard Owen is a novelist and journalist living in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he and his partner, Karen, are editors for the Free Lance-Star. His books include Littlejohn, Extra fat Lightning, Rock of Age ranges, and The Reckoning.

Category: Thriller & Suspense