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Through the acclaimed author of The Previous Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a "combustible procedural that will knock the blowing wind out of you" (The New York Times). Officer Denny Rakestraw, "Negro officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, and Sergeant McInnis have their hands full in an overcrowded and quickly changing Atlanta. It's 1950, and color lines are shifting and racial tensions are simmering. African american households - including Smith's sister and brother-in-law - are getting into Rake's formerly all-white neighborhood, leading some residents to raise money to get them out while others advocate a more violent solution. Rake's brother-in-law, Dale, a pleased Klansman, launches a structure to rally his fellow Kluxers to save lots of their neighborhood. When those efforts spiral uncontrollable and leave a guy inactive, Rake is pressured to select from devotion to family and regulations. He isn't the only one with family troubles. Boggs has outraged his preacher daddy by courting a home, and today her ex-boyfriend has been released from jail. As Boggs, Smith, and their all-black precinct cope with violent drug sellers fighting for turf in new place, their personal dramas pull them closer to the fires that threaten to take Atlanta once more. With echoes of Adam Ellroy and Denis Lehane, Mullen shows in Lightning Men why he's celebrated for writing criminal offenses fiction "with a nimble sense of history...quick on its ft and vividly attracted" (Dallas Day News).
