Violent Spring (Deluxe Edition)
(Libby/OverDrive eBook, Kindle)

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Contributors
Phillips, Gary Author
Mosley, Walter Author of introduction, etc.
Published
Soho Press , 2024.
Status
Available from Libby/OverDrive

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Description

"In 1992, Los Angeles burned. In the aftermath of the Rodney King beating and subsequent riots, a ground-breaking ceremony at the infamous intersection of Florence and Normandie unearths the body of a Korean shop owner. Black private eye Ivan Monk searches for the killer-many suspect the motives for the murder were racial. But then another body turns up, and while the FBI and the Rolling Daltons-the largest gang in the city-dog Monk's trail, Monk begins to question just how many people will be involved, and how many will die before he can find the truth"-- Provided by publisher.

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Format
eBook, Kindle
Street Date
05/07/2024
Language
English
ISBN
9781641294409

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In the wake of the Rodney King beating and the subsequent riots, Los Angeles is a racial tinderbox. When the body of a murdered Korean shop owner is discovered during the groundbreaking ceremony of what's intended to be part of the city's healing process, private eye Ivan Monk gets involved in the case. Given the atmosphere, everyone assumes a racial motive, but as Monk probes ever deeper into the case, greed rears its omnipresent head. Monk meets resistance from the Korean Merchants Association, the FBI, the LAPD, and an assortment of street gangs. As a hard-boiled mystery, this is routine. As an examination of L.A.'s racial strife, it's really quite enlightening. So many of the ethnic groups outside the power structure are interdependent, yet they resent the others' presence. Banding together would provide strength, but it's to the empowered's advantage to keep the groups squabbling among themselves. This is the milieu in which Monk works. Depending upon whom he is questioning, he's perceived as either an Uncle Tom or a troublemaking black agitator. But he perseveres to a bloody conclusion in which the only color that really matters is the green of cold, hard cash. ~--Wes Lukowsky

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Phillips, G., & Mosley, W. (2024). Violent Spring (Deluxe Edition) . Soho Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Phillips, Gary and Walter Mosley. 2024. Violent Spring (Deluxe Edition). Soho Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Phillips, Gary and Walter Mosley. Violent Spring (Deluxe Edition) Soho Press, 2024.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Phillips, G. and Mosley, W. (2024). Violent spring (deluxe edition). Soho Press.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Phillips, Gary, and Walter Mosley. Violent Spring (Deluxe Edition) Soho Press, 2024.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

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