Down the river unto the sea / Walter Mosley.
Material type: TextPublisher: London, England : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018Publisher: ©2018Description: 322 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1474608744
- 9781474608749
- Down the river to the sea
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection | Fiction Collection | MOSL | Available | T00805296 |
Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and prostitutes in the city's poorest neighborhoods. The two cases intertwine, exposing a pattern of corruption and brutality wielded against black men, women, and children whose lives the law detroyed.