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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, Ford’s 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 JJ’s
favorite music—the soulful rhythmic beats of hip hop
artist Deuce F (a.k.a. Yousef al-Salaam)—he 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 F’s murder—a 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-Salaam’s
death.
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