Returning home from his janitor’s job early one morning, Obie Bullock leader of a Philadelphia anti-violence group stumbles upon a crime scene: someone has just slit the throat of a police officer. Armed with the officer’s recovered revolver, Obie, an Iraq war vet, corners and kills the masked assassin, who turns out to be the youngest brother of a powerful, but imprisoned drug dealer. Demands for revenge follow, sparking the fast-paced action while simultaneously examining the lives of a working-class family struggling to survive in the projects of Philadelphia. Character-based, authentic, and gripping, this novel exposes the difficulties and danger of working to rid a neighborhood of drugs and violence so that future generations can grow up safe and secure.
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Allen Ballard is a professor of history and Africana studies at SUNY-Albany. He is the author of One More Day’s Journey and Where I'm Bound, which was a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year and winner of the First Novelist prize from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. He lives in Clifton Park, New York.
A memorable novel that is a fast, paced page turning story of a black community determined to rid itself of the drug-driven plague of crime and violence. . . . It entertains, ennobles, and inspires.” Darlene Clark Hine, co-author, The African-American Odyssey
Ballard keeps it real and writes with power and authority.” John Herritage, Staff Inspector (Ret.), New York State Police
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