Lightning Men: A Novel by Thomas Mullen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303232 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lightning Men: A Novel Series: #2 of The Darktown Series Author: Thomas Mullen Narrator: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of “the most compelling new series in crime fiction” (Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author) comes “a sharply observed novel” (New York Times) that explores race, law enforcement, and justice in mid-century Atlanta. Officer Denny Rakestraw and “Negro Officers” Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It’s 1950 and racial tensions are simmering as black families, including Smith’s sister, begin moving into formerly all-white neighborhoods. When Rake’s brother-in-law launches a scheme to rally the Ku Klux Klan to “save” their neighborhood, his efforts spiral out of control, forcing Rake to choose between loyalty to family or the law. Across town, Boggs and Smith try to shut down the supply of white lightning and drugs into their territory, finding themselves up against more powerful foes than they’d expected. Battling corrupt cops and ex-cons, Nazi brown shirts and rogue Klansmen, the officers are drawn closer to the fires that threaten to consume the city once again. With echoes of Walter Mosley and Dennis Lehane, Mullen “expands the boundaries of crime fiction, weaving in eye-opening details from our checkered history” (Chicago Tribune).