Lightning Men by Thomas Mullen PDF

'A remarkable mixing of crime, secret, and American heritage. tremendous entertainment'
Stephen King on Darktown

Lightning Men follows the multi-award-nominated, hugely acclaimed crime debut Darktown right into a urban near to large and violent switch - and entire of secrets and techniques.

Atlanta, 1950. In a divided urban, crime comes domestic.

White officer Denny Rakestraw joins Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith from Atlanta's Negro Officer precinct to stand the Klan, gangs and relations conflict of their speedily altering city.

Black households - together with Smith's sister and brother-in-law - are entering into Rake's previously all-white neighbourhood, best Rake's brother-in-law, a proud Klansman, to release a scheme to 'save' their streets. while these efforts depart a guy useless, Rake is pressured to choose from loyalty to kinfolk or the law.

in the meantime, Boggs has outraged his preacher father through dating a family, whose risky ex-boyfriend is then published from felony. As Boggs, Smith, and their all-black precinct take care of violent drug buyers struggling with for turf in new territory, their own dramas draw them towards the fires that threaten to devour Atlanta as soon as again.

Praise for Thomas Mullen

'Magnificent and shocking'
Sunday Times

'Written with a ferocious ardour that'll knock the wind out of you'
New York Times

'Superb'
Ken Follet