Lightning Men by Thomas Mullen
Lightning Men follows the multi-award-nominated, highly acclaimed crime debut Darktown into a city on the brink of huge and violent change - and full of secrets.
Black vsWhite doesn't begin to cover the complexity of the diverse relationships in this sharply observed novel * New York Times *
Violent, compassionate and brilliant. * Sunday Times (Crime Club) *
Today's finest exemplar of the white-writer-black-cop tradition. Few other crime writers are as adept . . . social history made riveting * Sunday Times *
Mullen again brilliantly combines a suspenseful plot with a searing look at a racist South * Publishers Weekly *
Morally complex and boasting more finely drawn characters, this outstanding follow-up to Darktown deepens Mullen's portrait of pre-civil rights America and deserves a place on every suspense reader's list. * Library Journal *
Behind an engaging story and challenging action for the protagonists, the friction between the races is ever at the forefront of the story, and the detail is at times jaw-dropping. * Crime Review *
Violent, compassionate and brilliant. * Sunday Times (Crime Club) *
Today's finest exemplar of the white-writer-black-cop tradition. Few other crime writers are as adept . . . social history made riveting * Sunday Times *
Mullen again brilliantly combines a suspenseful plot with a searing look at a racist South * Publishers Weekly *
Morally complex and boasting more finely drawn characters, this outstanding follow-up to Darktown deepens Mullen's portrait of pre-civil rights America and deserves a place on every suspense reader's list. * Library Journal *
Behind an engaging story and challenging action for the protagonists, the friction between the races is ever at the forefront of the story, and the detail is at times jaw-dropping. * Crime Review *
Thomas Mullen is the author of Darktown, an NPR Best Book of the Year, which has been shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Southern Book Prize, the Indies Choice Book Award, has been nominated for two Crime Writers Association Dagger Awards, and is being developed for television by Sony Pictures with executive producer Jamie Foxx; The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA Today and was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction; The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers; and The Revisionists. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and sons.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408710623 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408710625 |
| Title | Lightning Men |
| Author | Thomas Mullen |
| Series | Darktown |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2017-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for CWA Historical Dagger 2018 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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