Author: Thomas Mullen
Narrator: Andre Holland
Unabridged: 11 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 09/13/2016
Thomas Mullen is the author of The Lightning Men, Darktown, and The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA TODAY. He was also awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction for The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers and The Revisionists. His works have been named to Year’s Best lists by The Chicago Tribune and USA TODAY, among others. His stories and essays have been published in Grantland, Paste, and the Huffington Post, and his Atlanta Magazine true crime story about a novelist/con man won the City and Regional Magazine Award for Best Feature. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and sons.
Darktown is an excellent book that works at many levels. At heart, it's a crime novel, but beyond that, it has a great deal to say about the time and place in which the story plays out. Set in Atlanta shortly after World War II, the book opens just after the city government has forced the police depa......more
An enthusiastic 4 stars! Darktown is another novel that has me ending 2017 on a reading upswing. Mullen's book features a small group of black police officers in Atlanta in 1948. They are the first black officers in the city. They have to work out of the basement of a YMCA, they can't wear their unif......more