検索キーワード： 著者 "Thomas Mullen" すべてのカテゴリー

Atlanta 1956: In der pulsierenden Südstaatenhauptstadt verschärfen sich die Rassenkonflikte, als die Bürgerrechtsbewegung mit dem jungen Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. einen neuen Wortführer bekommt. In dieser ohnehin schon angespannten Lage wird Arthur Bishop, der Herausgeber der führenden schwarzen Tageszeitung ermordet. Sofort gerät der Journalist und ehemalige Cop Tommy Smith ins Fadenkreuz der rassistischen Polizisten. Um sich zu entlasten, muss Smith mehr über die Geschichte erfahren, an der Bishop gearbeitet hat.

Tief in den Wäldern des Staates Washington liegt die Holzfällerstadt Commonwealth. Charles Worthy hat sich mit der Gründung der Stadt und ihren gesellschaftlichen Idealen fernab von Ausbeutung und Unterdrückung einen Lebenstraum erfüllt. Doch sein Traum ist in Gefahr: Gerade als sich der Erste Weltkrieg seinem Ende zuneigt, bricht die todbringende Spanische Grippe aus. Die Bewohner von Commonwealth sind entschlossen, sich mit strenger Quarantäne zu schützen.

Atlanta 1950: Auch nach zwei Jahren Dienstzeit wird die Arbeit der ersten schwarzen Polizisten Atlantas täglich von Rassismus bestimmt. Die Cops Lucius Boggs und Tommy Smith haben kaum Befugnisse, und um Ermittlungen durchzuführen, sind sie auf die Hilfe weißer Polizisten angewiesen, die ihre Arbeit aber zumeist durch Schikanen und Willkür behindern. Als schwarze Familien - darunter die von Smiths Schwester - in ein ehemals rein weißes Viertel ziehen, beginnen die Rassenkonflikte in der sich rasant verändernden Stadt zu brodeln.

Atlanta, 1948. Boggs und Smith sind unter den ersten schwarzen Polizisten, die das Atlanta Police Department auf Anweisung von oben einstellen muss. Ihre weißen Kollegen begegnen ihnen mit tiefster Feindseligkeit. Als eine junge schwarze Frau tot aufgefunden wird, nehmen sie die Ermittlungen auf - und geraten an Dunlow, einen brutalen Cop, der das Viertel seit Langem wie ein kleiner König regiert. Zwischen zwielichtigen Alkoholschmugglern, scheinheiligen Puffmüttern, korrupten Gesetzeshütern und unter permanenter Anfeindung riskieren Boggs und Smith ihre neuen Jobs - und ihr Leben -, um den Fall zu lösen.

Responding to pressure from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers. It's a victory of sorts, though the newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers, and their authority is limited: They can't arrest a suspect unless a white officer is present; they can't drive squad cars; they can't even enter the station through the front door.

Zed is an agent from the future. A time when the world's problems have been solved. No hunger. No war. No despair. His mission is to keep it that way. Even if it means ensuring every cataclysm throughout history runs its course-especially The Great Conflagration, an imminent disaster in our own time that Zed has been ordered to protect at all costs.

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.

When Arthur Bishop, editor of Atlanta's leading Black newspaper, is killed in his office, cop-turned-journalist Tommy Smith finds himself in the crosshairs of the racist cops he's been trying to avoid. To clear his name, he needs to learn more about the dangerous story Bishop had been working on. Meanwhile, Smith's ex-partner Lucius Boggs and white Sergeant Joe McInnis—the only white cop in the Black precinct—find themselves caught between meddling federal agents, racist detectives and communist activists as they try to solve the murder.

Atlanta, 1948. In this city all crime is black and white. On one side of the tracks are the rich white neighbourhoods, on the other Darktown, the African American area guarded by the city's first black police force of only eight men. These cops are kept near powerless by the authorities: they can't arrest white suspects; they can't drive squad cars; they must operate out of a dingy basement. When a poor black woman is killed in Darktown having been last seen in a car with a rich white man, no one seems to care except for Boggs and Smith, two black cops.

Reporter Anne Lemire writes the Rumor Clinic, a newspaper column that disproves the many harmful rumors floating around town, some of them spread by Axis spies and others just gossip mixed with fear and ignorance. Tired of chasing silly rumors about Rosie Riveters' safety on the job, she wants to write about something bigger. Special Agent Devon Mulvey, one of the few Catholics at the FBI, spends his weekdays preventing industrial sabotage and his Sundays spying on clerics with suspect loyalties—and he spends his evenings wooing the many lonely women whose husbands are off at war.

Diceva Faulkner che il Sud bisogna raccontarlo; che bisogna spiegare perché la gente vive lì, e anzi perché vive. Il Sud raccontato qui è quello della città di Atlanta del 1948, l'anno in cui, per la prima volta, a otto afroamericani fu concesso di arruolarsi nelle forze di polizia per pattugliare i quartieri abitati dalla propria gente.

Seven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people’s brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to hack it and change what people see? Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness insists the killer was blacked out of her vision, Owens doesn’t believe her—until a similar murder happens in front of him.