Alex Cross's trial / by James Patterson & Richard Dilallo.
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TextSeries: Detective Alex Cross ; 15Publication details: London : Century, 2009Description: viii, 380 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846057021 (pbk.)Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) | Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Fiction | Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) | Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Fiction | Ku Klux Klan (1915-) -- Fiction | Detective and mystery stories, American | Cross, Alex (Fictitious character) | Historical fiction, American | Cross, Alex (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Police -- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction | Lawyers -- Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction | Racism -- Mississippi -- Fiction | Mississippi -- Race relations -- Fiction | Suspense fictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery stories | Suspense fiction | Suspense fiction. | Detective and mystery stories | Suspense fiction DDC classification: 813.54 Summary: 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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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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