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brfaucette 's review for:
Darktown
by Thomas Mullen
From the first page to the last Thomas Mullen's hard boiled novel about the struggles of Atlanta's first 8 African American cops grabs you and never lets you. Mullen like so many other great crime writers uses the genre to explore larger social issues, in this case life in Jim Crow South before Civil Rights were an issue or offered protection to the African American community. His sharp and at time lyrical prose captures the complexity of racism in the South and reveals how at that time, even the people who were supposed to respectful of African Americans were capable of hypocrisy.