Down the river unto the sea / Walter Mosley.
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TextPublisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 322 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781474608664; 9781474608749Other title: Down the river to the seaSubject(s): African American detectives -- Fiction | Ex-police officers -- Fiction | Judicial error -- Fiction | Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | Police corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | Race relations -- Fiction | Fathers and daughters -- FictionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction) | Detective and mystery fiction. DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: 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.
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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.
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