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I must admit defeat. This is a well-written novel with excellent characters and a good plot. But I could not read it. It hurt my heart too much. When I read the line about there being no Jim Crow rules on police procedures, that was the end. I lived through those Jim Crow days. I fear those days are returning. The brutality and casual racism endured by the eight African-Americans who became police in Atlanta in the early 1950s must have been excruciating. And as George Santanyana said, "Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it." So read this novel if you want to know the horrors of the Deep South, but do not expect to be comfortable. How can I rate it?