A review by sonia_reppe
Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens

5.0

1970s. This starts with Broady, 15, hearing news of a missing woman in his small Missouri town. Broady is good-hearted, hardworking (in construction), and endearing from the moment he foils a school bully. When pressured and threatened by a white supremacist group, he refuses to go along. He's not perfect, he confronts his own racial insensitivity at one point, gently corrected by his older black neighbor, but he's so easy to root for.
Racial tensions are alive in his town when a black man is made head manager of the plant. Broady becomes friends with the manager's son, and they play a part in trying to expose the shady situation surrounding the missing woman and a town scandal.