In a coordinated ecumenical burst, a Ph.D. black brother in the
movement, an aging Mafia Don, an Israeli Irgun-activist, wipe out a
New York City cop and a Southern redneck assassin and bring on a
long hot Labor Day. When a Negro boy is killed by policeman
Carrigan, Browning, a college fund raiser for an established Civil
Rights organization in Harlem, opts for an eye-for-an-eye message
to Whitey. Pulling off the deed with professional dispatch is
middle-aged Hod, a former Israeli, who knows how terrorist tactics
worked for a minority; and making the contacts are a family group
of Mafiamen, led by a sympathetic Don Mantini who once had wanted
to marry a Negro girl. Hod also travels South to gun down a bigot
who had dynamited a college, killing three Negro girls. However Hod
becomes merely an accomplice when a brother of one of the victims
also shows. Betimes, back in New York and other large cities,
blacks and plainclothes cops are fighting it out while bridges and
tunnels are destroyed according to plan. Browning, a loving family
man, straightens out some domestic troubles in the temporary peace
of Long Island, accepts his daughter's nice white boyfriend, and
regards sadly what he has brought about. The blacks punctuate with
"baby"; the Mafia are courtly and loving; the Israeli is built like
a desert tank - and isn't it a loverly war. Melting pot Armageddon.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Originally published in 1969, this parable of racial intrigue
centers on the killing of an unarmed black youth by Sergeant
Carrigan, a white policeman. The murder prompts Eugene Browning,
second in command at the Institute for Racial Justice, a civil
rights organization, to seek revenge by hiring a professional
killer to assassinate Carrigan. Browning enlists the help of an
aging Mafia don, who passes the hit to a former terrorist from
Israel. This single act of retribution sets in motion a crisis of
unprecedented proportions as a band of black militants proceed to
launch a violent plan of their own. As the dramatic events unfold,
Browning struggles to put his troubled personal and professional
life back in order.
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