'A brilliant blending of crime mystery & American history Terrific entertainment' Stephen King on Darktown Lightning Men follows the multi-award-nominated highly acclaimed crime debut Darktown into a city on the brink of huge & violent change
- & full of secrets Atlanta 1950 In a divided city crime comes home White officer Denny Rakestraw joins Lucius Boggs & Tommy Smith from Atlanta's Negro Officer precinct to face the Klan gangs & family warfare in their rapidly changing city Black families
- including Smith's sister & brother-in-law
- are moving into Rake's formerly all-white neighbourhood leading Rake's brother-in-law a proud Klansman to launch a scheme to 'save' their streets When those efforts leave a man dead Rake is forced to choose between loyalty to family or the law Meanwhile Boggs has outraged his preacher father by courting a domestic whose dangerous ex-boyfriend is then released from prison As Boggs Smith & their all-black precinct contend with violent drug dealers fighting for turf in new territory their personal dramas draw them closer to the fires that threaten to consume Atlanta once again Praise for Thomas Mullen ' Magnificent & shocking' Sunday Times' Written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you' New York Times' Superb' Ken Follet