skilled at injecting pace and tension.a historical thriller that efficiently delivers both thrills and history, especially in the still under-developed chronicles of black America - Mark Lawson,GuardianIntricate plotting. But then Eddie's sister Junie becomes entangled in an underground movement and vanishes.Is her disappearance connected to the conspiracy to control the President of the United States? Review A brilliant literary thriller, packed with insight, intelligence and ideas.Eye-opening and absorbing: I really couldn't put it down,Literary ReviewCarter employs conspiratorial and paranoid plotting to highlight the reality of American political division. The murdered man had an unusual gold cross gripped between his hands and Eddie is determined to find out why he was killed and what the cross signifies. Soon after, writer Eddie Wesley leaves a party hosted by affluent and influential members of black society, and discovers a body. Twenty powerful men gather in secret and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. 6-city author tour.Product Description Summer, 1952. Though aspects of the plot require more suspension of disbelief than in Carter's previous novels (New England White The Emperor of Ocean Park), the rich characterization and elegant writing more than compensate. Aided by his on-again, off-again love interest, Aurelia Treene, Wesley also searches for his beloved sister, Junie, whose disappearance may be connected to Castle's death. An inverted cross bearing a cryptic inscription clutched in the victim's hand intrigues Wesley enough for him to pursue a trail that leads to a shadowy group of conspirators known as the Palace Council.
After literally stumbling on Castle's garroted corpse in a Harlem park, Eddie Wesley, a young and ambitious African-American writer, is afraid to identify himself to the police. Spanning the years from 1954 to 1974, bestseller Carter's third novel, a subtle and intelligent page-turner, centers on the murder of a prominent white Wall Street attorney, Philmont Castle.
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