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Carregando... Line of Sightde James Queally
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Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML:"AN AMAZING FIRST NOVEL." â??MICHAEL CONNELLY The debut novel from award-winning crime reporter James Queally All favors come with a cost, and after using what little favors he has in the Newark PD to get his private investigators license, former crime reporter Russell Avery finds himself paying. He spends his days reluctantly keeping sideways cops out of the crosshairs of the Internal Affairs department. Until Keyonna Jackson, a social justice activist, presents him with a troubling video: a made-for-Youtube cell phone snippet chronicling the same kind of questionable use-of-force that had set New York City, Ferguson, and Cleveland on fire in recent years. The same use-of-force that he's been covering up for Newark PD. Now, the young black man who filmed this video is dead and the more questions Russell asks, the less his cop buddies like him. For the first time in his life, Russell finds himself on the wrong side of the guys with the badges and guns. When details of the shooting become publicâ??and a city with race riots in its DNA flirts with the idea of letting history repeat itselfâ??Russell finds himself allying with street activists and gang members as he races to put together the biggest story of his life... before the city he needs to tell it to burns down ar Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Review of the Agora Books hardcover edition (March 2020)
Sadly, this book about a fictional police shooting caught on video and the later suspicious death of the camera operator is too often paralleled by situations in the daily news, such as the current situation in Minneapolis, Minnesota (late May 2020 as I write this). Author Queally captures the views of gang life, community activism and the thin blue line of enforcement here in an effective manner which keeps you guessing as to the causes and effects of the resulting tragedy.
My rating is perhaps a bit reserved as I somehow didn't find the protagonist former reporter / current private investigator completely believable in his conflicting allegiances throughout. He is so "in" with the police department that former associates there help him shortcut his way to a PI license, meanwhile he is seemingly working against them with his former almost-fiancée and his ties to the activism community. But for a first novel some bumps are to be expected. Still a good first outing, and sadly constantly made to be topical too frequently these days.
Trivia and Links
Line of Sight is one of the initial titles from Agora Books, a new imprint of independent publisher Polis Books which will be "a diversity-focused imprint devoted to crime and noir fiction." Other initial releases from Agora Books are Three-Fifths(September 2019) by John Vercher, Remember(October 2019) by Patricia Smith, The Ninja Daughter (November 2019) by Tori Eldridge, Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (February 2020), Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem by Gary Phillips (February 2020), and [Both Sides: Stories From the Border edited by Gabino Iglesias (April 2020). Watch for further releases from Agora Books at the Polis Books website. (