Down the river unto the sea, Walter Mosley
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Down the river unto the sea, Walter Mosley
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eng
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no index present
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fiction
Main title
Down the river unto the sea
Oclc number
1021853629
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Walter Mosley
Summary
Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and prostitutes in the city's poorest neighborhoods. The two cases intertwine, exposing a pattern of corruption and brutality wielded against black men, women, and children whose lives the law detroyed
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Down the river to the sea
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- Ex-police officers -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Judicial error -- Fiction
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
- Private investigators
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Race relations + Fiction
- Police corruption -- Fiction
- Suspense fiction
- Private investigators -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Mystery fiction
- Police corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- African American detectives -- Fiction
- FICTION / African American / Mystery & Detective
- Detective and mystery stories
- Race relations -- Fiction
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- Creator1
- Genre6
- Subject18
- Ex-police officers -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Judicial error -- Fiction
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
- Private investigators
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Race relations + Fiction
- Police corruption -- Fiction
- Suspense fiction
- Private investigators -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Mystery fiction
- Police corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- African American detectives -- Fiction
- FICTION / African American / Mystery & Detective
- Detective and mystery stories
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
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