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The Shango Mysteries
Midnight Ink
July 2006
384 pages
ISBN: 0738708097
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Mystery
Authentically evoking current social prejudices surrounding modern-day hip hop, Fordβs second politically- charged novel in the Shango Mysteries Series finds former NYPD officer John Shannon investigating the death of a popular rap artist recently converted to a mystical sect of Islam and targeted by Homeland Security for possible ties to terrorist groups. When John Shannon is introduced to his teenage son JJβs favorite musicβthe soulful rhythmic beats of hip hop artist Deuce F (a.k.a. Yousef al-Salaam)βhe finds himself wincing through a difficult father-and-son talk about what women can and cannot be referred to within his Harlem townhouse. But things become far more difficult when Shannon becomes embroiled in Deuce Fβs murderβa shooting outside a popular rap club which the NYPD calls "a gangland feud within a violent hip hop subculture," but one that Shannon believes involved a more sinister motivation. Amidst a pervasive rhetoric that portrays Muslims as the purveyors of violence in the world, Shannon throws himself into a dangerous melee of gangsta rappers and religious fundamentalists to uncoil the truth behind al-Salaamβs death.
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