Down the River unto the Sea

Name: Down the River unto the Sea
ISBN: 9780316509657

Walter Mosley

2018·336 pages

Literary Fiction Mystery

anti hero band of misfits cold case dark gritty hidden past

★ Edgar Award (2019) · Winner

“A wild ride that delivers hard-boiled satisfaction while toying with our prejudices and preconceptions.”
— Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times

Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until he was framed for sexual assault by unknown enemies within the force. A decade has passed since his release from Rikers, and he now runs a private detective agency with the help of his teenage daughter. Physically and emotionally broken by the brutality he suffered while behind bars, King leads a solitary life, his work and his daughter the only lights. When he receives a letter from his accuser confessing that she was paid to frame him years ago, King decides to find out who wanted him gone and why. On a quest for the justice he was denied, King agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers. Their cases intertwine across the years and expose a pattern of corruption and brutality wielded against the black men, women, and children whose lives the law destroyed. All the while, two lives hang in the balance: King's client's and his own.

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