Description
The Wire meets Colson Whitehead in this audacious, darkly funny and absorbing literary crime masterpiece about a black police officer in Atlanta, Georgia George Washington Jonson grew up in one of Atlanta's poorest housing projects, but has made a new life for himself. After serving abroad in the U.S. Army, he joined the police force and has been a decade on the job, patrolling the streets he grew up on and managing to build relationships within the force - especially with Tucker, the veteran police officer and self-described 'redneck' who taught Jonson the ropes. Now it's 2005 and Jonson himself is tasked with training hot-headed rookie recruits. One night out on patrol with his trainee, Utner, a split-second confrontation with a white teenager takes a violent turn and Utner shoots the teenager dead. The ramifications of that single fatal gunshot radiate outwards across two decades - and as the furore around the case mounts to a fever pitch, it threatens to expose the complex nest of lies that seethes beneath not only the Atlanta police force, but the entire city ...