Darktown
- Author Thomas Mullen
- Narrator Andre Holland
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 11 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
'A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment'
Stephen King
'Magnificent and shocking'
Sunday Times
Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white.
On one side of the tracks are the rich, white neighbourhoods; on the other, Darktown, the African-American area guarded by the city's first black police force of only eight men. These cops are kept near-powerless by the authorities: they can't arrest white suspects; they can't drive a squad car; they must operate out of a dingy basement.
When a poor black woman is killed in Darktown having been last seen in a car with a rich white man, no one seems to care except for Boggs and Smith, two black cops from vastly different backgrounds. Pressured from all sides, they will risk their jobs, the trust of their community and even their own lives to investigate her death.
Their efforts bring them up against a brutal old-school cop, Dunlow, who has long run Darktown as his own turf - but Dunlow's idealistic young partner, Rakestraw, is a young progressive who may be willing to make allies across colour lines . . .
Soon to be a major TV series from Jamie Foxx and Sony Pictures Television.
Critics Review
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A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment.
Stephen King -
Superb
Ken Follett -
Mullen blends the classic ingredients of det-fic noir with a well-researched and searing portrayal of pre-civil rights racial division. Magnificent and shocking
Sunday Times -
One incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible procedural, set in the city’s rigidly segregated black neighborhoods during the pre-civil-rights era and written with a ferocious passion that’ll knock the wind out of you.
New York Times -
Fascinating, grim and unsettling, this is a story of violent and ingrained racism, political corruption, conspiracy and almost unbearable psychological pressure
Guardian -
A terrific story that raises issues that have not vanished.
The Times
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