TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mayfield,Jahmal
TI  - Smoke Kings: a novel 
SN  - 9781685891114
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Brooklyn
PB  - Melville House
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Murder
KW  - Violence
KW  - Racism
KW  - Vigilantes
KW  - Revenge
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Social problem fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - "Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets...When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their racist lineages, and forcing them to pay reparations to a community fund. For 3 of the group members, the results mean justice; for Nate -- pure revenge. Not all targets go quietly into the night, though, and Nate and his friends' world spirals out of control when they confront the wrong man. Now the leader of a white supremacist group is hot on their tail as is a jaded lawman with some disturbingly racist views of his own. As the 4 vigilantes fight to thwart their ruthless pursuers, they're forced to accept an age-old truth: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.""--
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