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William Morrow
November 2006
On Sale: November 1, 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0060525061
EAN: 9780060525064
Hardcover
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Thriller
Corruption, race, justice, and honor collide in this
riveting thriller set against the backdrop of the infamous
Newark Riots of 1967 They say lightning never
strikes the same spot twice. But Detective Martin Emmett
is about to prove the exception to the rule. It is the
summer of 1967 and Newark, New Jersey, is in the grip of a
heat wave that is bringing the city's simmering racial
tension to a boiling point. Banished to desk duty, his
career on the line, the young detective is offered a
chance at professional redemption if he can quickly and
quietly solve the murder of a black teenager whose
mutilated body has been found in a subway tunnel. The
investigation leads Emmett to a terrible discovery: the
dead boy is just one victim in a string of sadistic
murders. In a time before the term "serial
killer" was coined and technology acted as the right arm
of the law, Emmett uncovers the trail of a madman who has
been abducting black teens and using the sewers beneath
the city streets as a maze in which to hunt them in a
twisted game of predator and prey. While the race riots
engulf Newark, crippling the city with chaos and bringing
the police force to its knees, Emmett must track down the
killer before the next hunt begins. Critically
acclaimed author Brett Ellen Block returns with an
explosive novel of suspense, politics, and race. Masterly
plotted and delivered in beautiful prose, The Lightning
Rule is a fierce story about the raging battle to
restore brotherhood and morality to a city under siege
from within.
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