PACG Book Club - Lightning Men (Darktown #2) by
Thomas Mullen
Monday, March 17th at 5:15 pm - Zoom only
No meeting in February!
We will continue to meet via Zoom in March, but will go back to in person meetings in April. For March we will read and discuss the second book in the Darktown series by Thomas Mullen, Lightning Men.
For those wanting to get a head start, the April book is Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerich. The author is a 7th generation Iowan and the book was recommended by J.D. Scholten. Read more about it at this PACG blog post.
Contact me for the Zoom link to the March meeting.
Alta Price
Here is more about Lightning Men from Goodreads:
"From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a “combustible procedural that will knock the wind out of you” (The New York Times)."
"Officer Denny Rakestraw, “Negro Officers” Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, and Sergeant McInnis have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It’s 1950 and color lines are shifting and racial tensions are simmering. Black families—including Smith’s sister and brother-in-law—are moving into Rake’s formerly all-white neighborhood, leading some residents to raise money to buy them out, while others advocate a more violent solution. Rake’s brother-in-law, Dale, a proud Klansman, launches a scheme to rally his fellow Kluxers to save their neighborhood. When those efforts spiral out of control and leave a man dead, Rake is forced to choose between loyalty to family or the law."
"He isn’t the only one with family troubles. Boggs has outraged his preacher father by courting a domestic, and now her ex-boyfriend has been released from prison. As Boggs, Smith, and their all-black precinct contend with violent drug dealers fighting for turf in new territory, their personal dramas draw them closer to the fires that threaten to consume Atlanta once again."
We will continue to meet via Zoom in March, but will go back to in person meetings in April. For March we will read and discuss the second book in the Darktown series by Thomas Mullen, Lightning Men.
For those wanting to get a head start, the April book is Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerich. The author is a 7th generation Iowan and the book was recommended by J.D. Scholten. Read more about it at this PACG blog post.
Contact me for the Zoom link to the March meeting.
Alta Price
Here is more about Lightning Men from Goodreads:
"From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a “combustible procedural that will knock the wind out of you” (The New York Times)."
"Officer Denny Rakestraw, “Negro Officers” Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, and Sergeant McInnis have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It’s 1950 and color lines are shifting and racial tensions are simmering. Black families—including Smith’s sister and brother-in-law—are moving into Rake’s formerly all-white neighborhood, leading some residents to raise money to buy them out, while others advocate a more violent solution. Rake’s brother-in-law, Dale, a proud Klansman, launches a scheme to rally his fellow Kluxers to save their neighborhood. When those efforts spiral out of control and leave a man dead, Rake is forced to choose between loyalty to family or the law."
"He isn’t the only one with family troubles. Boggs has outraged his preacher father by courting a domestic, and now her ex-boyfriend has been released from prison. As Boggs, Smith, and their all-black precinct contend with violent drug dealers fighting for turf in new territory, their personal dramas draw them closer to the fires that threaten to consume Atlanta once again."
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