Willie Bledsoe, once an idealistic young black activist, is now a
burnt-out case. After leaving a snug berth at Tuskegee Institute to
join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he has become
bitterly disillusioned with the civil rights movement and its
leaders. He returns home to Alabama to try to write a memoir about
his time in the cultural whirlwind, but the words fail to come. The
surprise return of his Vietnam veteran brother in the spring of
1967 gives Willie a chance to drive a load of smuggled guns to the
Motor City - and make enough money to jump-start his stalled dream
of writing his movement memoir. There, at Tiger Stadium on Opening
Day of the 1968 baseball season - postponed two days in deference
to the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Willie learns some
terrifying news: the Detroit police are still investigating the
last unsolved murder from the bloody, apocalyptic riot of the
previous summer, and a white cop named Frank Doyle will not rest
until the case is solved. And Willie is his prime suspect. Bill
Morris's rich and thrilling new novel sets Doyle's hunt amid the
history of one of America's most tortured and fascinating cities,
as Doyle and Willie struggle with Detroit's deep racial divide,
with revenge and forgiveness - and with the realization that
justice is rarely attainable, and rarely just.
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