TY - BOOK AU - Mosley,Walter TI - Down the river unto the sea SN - 9781474608664 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson KW - African American detectives KW - Fiction KW - Ex-police officers KW - Judicial error KW - Private investigators KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Police corruption KW - Race relations KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction N2 - 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 ER -