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    "annotation": "<p><span>From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a &ldquo;combustible procedural that will knock the wind out of you&rdquo; (The New York Times).</span><br /><span>Officer Denny Rakestraw, &ldquo;Negro Officers&rdquo; Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, and Sergeant McInnis have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It&rsquo;s 1950 and color lines are shifting and racial tensions are simmering. Black families&mdash;including Smith&rsquo;s sister and brother-in-law&mdash;are moving into Rake&rsquo;s formerly all-white neighborhood, leading some residents to raise money to buy them out, while others advocate a more violent solution. Rake&rsquo;s brother-in-law, Dale, a proud Klansman, launches a scheme to rally his fellow Kluxers to save their neighborhood. When those efforts spiral out of control and leave a man dead, Rake is forced to choose between loyalty to family or the law.</span><br /><span>He isn&rsquo;t the only one with family troubles. Boggs has outraged his preacher father by courting a domestic, and now her ex-boyfriend has been released from prison. As Boggs, Smith, and their all-black precinct contend with violent drug dealers fighting for turf in new territory, their personal dramas draw them closer to the fires that threaten to consume Atlanta once again.</span></p>",
    "description": "<p><span>From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a &ldquo;combustible procedural that will knock the wind out of you&rdquo; (The New York Times).<br /></span><br /><span>Officer Denny Rakestraw, &ldquo;Negro Officers&rdquo; Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, and Sergeant McInnis have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It&rsquo;s 1950 and color lines are shifting and racial tensions are simmering. Black families&mdash;including Smith&rsquo;s sister and brother-in-law&mdash;are moving into Rake&rsquo;s formerly all-white neighborhood, leading some residents to raise money to buy them out, while others advocate a more violent solution. Rake&rsquo;s brother-in-law, Dale, a proud Klansman, launches a scheme to rally his fellow Kluxers to save their neighborhood. When those efforts spiral out of control and leave a man dead, Rake is forced to choose between loyalty to family or the law.<br /></span><br /><span>He isn&rsquo;t the only one with family troubles. Boggs has outraged his preacher father by courting a domestic, and now her ex-boyfriend has been released from prison. As Boggs, Smith, and their all-black precinct contend with violent drug dealers fighting for turf in new territory, their personal dramas draw them closer to the fires that threaten to consume Atlanta once again.</span></p>",
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