TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patterson,James
AU  - Dilallo,Richard
TI  - Alex Cross's trial
T2  - Detective Alex Cross
SN  - 9781846057021 (pbk.)
U1  - 813.54 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Century
KW  - Ku Klux Klan (1915-    )
KW  - Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Ku Klux Klan (1915-)
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
KW  - Cross, Alex (Fictitious character)
KW  - Historical fiction, American
KW  - Police
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Racism
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Formerly CIP
N2  - CRIME & MYSTERY. Ben Corbett is a brilliant young lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC. Yet he is a disappointment to his wife and father, who believe he wastes his talents by doing poorly-paid and thankless work helping the poor and downtrodden. One day, out of the blue, he receives a private invitation to the White House. President Theodore Roosevelt has personally selected Ben to help him investigate rumours of lynchings and a re-emergence of the outlawed Ku Klux Klan in Ben's own hometown of Eudora, Mississippi. As Ben delves into the murky depths of racial hatred that hide beneath the surface of this seemingly sleepy Southern town, people become suspicious of what he is trying to do, and make it very clear to Ben what he is risking if he continues. Can one man fight an entire town, an entire state that is stuck in the past and willing to go to any lengths to halt change and the coming of a future that they desperately fear?
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