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The celebrated writer of Clockers gives his most compelling and completed novel currently.
A white woman, her hands gashed and bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that she has just been carjacked by the black man. But then comes the horrifying twist: Her young child was asleep in the back seat, and he has now disappeared in to the night.
So begins Richard Price's electrifying new novel, a tale set on the same turf--Dempsey, New Jersey--as Clockers. Assigned to investigate the case of Brenda Martin's missing child is detective Lorenzo Council, an area son of the extremely housing project targeted as the scene of the crime. Under a white-hot media glare, Lorenzo launches an all-out seek out the abducted boy, even as he quietly explores an alternative possibility: Does Brenda Martin know much more about her son's disappearance than she's admitting?
Right behind Lorenzo is Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter from the city's evening paper. Almost immediately, Jesse suspects Brenda of covering something. Relentlessly, she works her way in to the distraught mother's fragile world, befriending her even as she looks for the opportunity to break the biggest story of her career.
As the seek out the alleged carjacker intensifies, so does the simmering racial tension between Dempsey and its own mostly white neighbor, Gannon. So when the Gannon police arrest a black man from Dempsey and declare him a suspect, the animosity between the two cities threatens to boil over into violence. Using the media swarming and the mood turning more and more ugly, Lorenzo must take anxious measures to get to the bottom of Brenda Martin's story.
At once a suspenseful mystery and a brilliant portrait of two cities locked in a death-grip of explosive rage, Freedomland reveals the heart of the urban American experience--dislocated, furious, yearning--as nothing you've seen prior. Richard Price has created a captivating, gut-wrenching masterpiece whose images will remain long after the final, devastating pages.
From the Hardcover edition.
