| Record Number |
775716 |
| ISBN |
9781474608749 (paperback) |
| 9781474608664 (hardback) |
| Author |
Mosley, Walter author. |
| Title |
Down the river unto the sea / Walter Mosley. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018. |
| ©2018 |
| Pagination etc. |
322 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary Note |
Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and prostitutes in the city's poorest neighborhoods. The two cases intertwine, exposing a pattern of corruption and brutality wielded against black men, women, and children whose lives the law detroyed. |
| Subject |
African American detectives -- Fiction |
| Private investigators -- New York (State)New York -- Fiction |
| Police corruption -- New York (State)New York -- Fiction |
| Judicial error -- Fiction |
| Ex-police officers -- Fiction |
| Race relations -- Fiction |
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Detective and mystery fiction. |
| Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Shelf Location |
F MOSL |
