Darktown
About this book
"Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers: they aren't allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect white cops are behind it. Their investigation sets them up against a brutal cop, Dunlow, who has long run the neighborhood as his own, and his partner, Rakestraw, a young progressive who may or may not be willing to make allies across color lines"--Amazon.com.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 9140 readers · 371 pages · ≈ 6 h 52 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Darktown?
About ≈ 6 h 52 m — 371 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Darktown?
371 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Darktown?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is Darktown in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Darktown?
Thomas Mullen.