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Smoke kings : a novel / Jahmal Mayfield.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781685891114 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 390 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2023
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| Subject: | African American men > Fiction. Hate crimes > Fiction. Racism > Fiction. Retribution > Fiction. Revenge > Fiction. Vigilantes > Fiction. White supremacy movements > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Noir fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Mayfi | 31681010358984 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |
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After his little cousin is murdered, young Black political activist Nate Evers, along with three grief-stricken friends, kidnaps descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, forcing them to pay reparations to a community fund, until he confronts the wrong man. Original. - Random House, Inc.
A New York Times The Best Crime Novels of the Year
âAs everything goes up in flames, Mayfield leans all the way into the discomfort zone" - Sarah Weinman, The New York Times
"A fresh and fierce new voice to crime fiction...a stunning book that takes the reader on an intense and harrowing journey that is truly unforgettable. Consider me a big fan." â Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force and City on Fire
"Jahmal Mayfield roars to the top of the writer-to-watch list with this sizzling debut. Smoke Kings is straight fire. Every page simmers with an undercurrent of rage, each line a hard dose of smoldering truth. I can't wait to see what Mayfield does next." - Eli Cranor, Edgar Award Winning Novelist of Don't Know Tough
In the vein of Get Out and Razorblade Tears, a feast of noir fiction and probing social commentary that asks us to consider what would happen if reparations were finally charged and exacted.
Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets 62 years after Emmett Till. When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their racist lineages, and forcing them to pay reparations to a community fund. For 3 of the group members, the results mean justice; for Nate â pure revenge.
Not all targets go quietly into the night, though, and Nate and his friends' world spirals out of control when they confront the wrong man. Now the leader of a white supremacist group is hot on their tail as is a jaded lawman with some disturbingly racist views of his own.
As the 4 vigilantes fight to thwart their ruthless pursuers, theyâre forced to accept an age-old truth: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
Smoke Kings is a powerful and propulsive novel with a diverse and unforgettable cast of characters. Like Steph Chaâs Your House Will Pay it explores decades of racial tensions through a fictional landscape where the line between justice and revenge is blurred.
