| From a two-time Edgar Award nominee, Streetsof Fire is a haunting story of murder and injus-tice. Winner of a Mystery Writers of AmericaEdgar nomination for Best Novel, ThomasCook s Sacrificial Ground was one of the mosthighly praised thrillers of 1988. In January1989, his new book, Flesh and Blood, was justas acclaimed: "Cook is an important talent,"wrote the LosAngeles Times, "not just an excep-tional plotter, but a prose stylist." Now, in Streets of Fire, Cook has written hisbest work yet--a novel of extraordinary power. Birmingham, Alabama, May 1963: As the cityturns into a sweltering oven, the first of MartinLuther King Jr. s civil rights demonstrationsbegin to fill the streets, and amidst the mount-ing turmoil, a young black girl is found dead--murdered. Veteran homicide detective Ben Wellman ishanded the job of investigating the murder. Hissearch runs down a twisting,erratic trail fromthe white-columned mansions of MountainBrook to the shothouses and poolhalls of theblack district of Bearmatch, and the more heprobes, pulling at the layers of bitterness andgreed surrounding the mystery, the more resis-tance he seems to encounter from all quarters,white and black. |
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