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Down the River Unto the Sea

Walter Mosley

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Down the River Unto the Sea won the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year. Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until he was framed for sexual assault by unknown enemies within the force. A decade has passed since his release from Rikers, and he now runs a private detective agency with the help of his teenage daughter. Physically and emotionally broken by the brutality he suffered while behind bars, King leads a solitary life, his work and his daughter the only lights. When he receives a letter from his accuser confessing that she was paid to frame him years ago, King decides to find out who wanted him gone and why. On a quest for the justice he was denied, King agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers. Their cases intertwine across the years and expose a pattern of corruption and brutality wielded against the black men, women, and children whose lives the law destroyed. All the while, two lives hang in the balance: King's client's and his own.

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Publisher
Hachette UK
Year
2018
ISBN-13
9780316509657
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Corruption and injusticeRacism and police brutalityRevenge and redemptionFather-daughter relationshipWrongful conviction

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