Short listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, this is a tale of corruption on a grand scale. Jay Porter is a lawyer with a past he has tried hard to bury. Baptised in the fires of the civil rights movement of the southern USA, betrayed and then painfully reinvented to a new life, his fragile existence is threatened by a good deed one dark night when he rescues a woman from drowning.
His impulse leads him into a trail of corporate and political corruption, threats to his life and the lives of his wife and unborn child and the resurrection of ghosts from his past. The worlds of oil corporations, docklands, civil rights, politics at all levels and personal bravery collide in a wonderfully dramatic story set in a period of huge social change.
This is a tangled thriller, with enough twists and turns to satisfy any fan of the genre. Clever and knowledgeable, Attica Locke is one to watch.
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