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felix_minka_mcintyre 's review for:
Darktown
by Thomas Mullen
My original draw to this story was the fact that Jamie Foxx and Sony Pictures Television have optioned it to turn it into a major TV series, so make sure you get ahead of the game by reading it now. Set in Atlanta a few years after the end of WWII, this author pulls no punches when detailing the day-to-day experience of segregation in the Deep South. The appointment of the city's first black police officers centres the focus of this awful period of history, highlighting how brutally slow (and brutally painful) progress has been. It's a fascinating read - and a tense one. I'm literally gripping my eReader with concern every time the policeman start a new shift, mainly because their white colleagues are so horrific. A brilliantly paced piece of historical fiction. Can't wait to see the TV show.