Detective Alex Cross recounts the story of his great-uncle Abraham, who, with the help of his beautiful daughter, introduces Washington, D.C., attorney Ben Corbett to the dark side of their small Southern town in the early 1900s, where Ben has been sent to investigate a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: cross, alex (fictitious character), fiction, african americans, southern states, social conditions, cross, alex (fictional character), legal stories, southern states, race relations, fiction