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Green Sun
Green Sun | Kent Anderson
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TOP 10 MYSTERIES & THRILLERS FOR SPRING --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY The long-awaited return of Kent Anderson, with "the best of what crime fiction can do" (Michael Connelly). Oakland, California, 1983: a Vietnam veteran-turned-police officer strives to be both a good cop and a good man. Oakland in 1983 is a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons he brought home from the war. But Hanson knows that justice requires more than simply enforcing the penal code. He believes in becoming a part of the community he serves-which is why, unlike most officers, he chooses to live in the same town where he works. His sense of fairness and honor leads to a precarious friendship with Felix Maxwell, the drug king of East Oakland. He is befriended by Weegee, a streetwise eleven-year-old who is primed to become a dope dealer. He falls in love with Libya the moment he sees her, a confident and outspoken black woman. Every day, every shift, tests a cop's boundaries between the man he wants to be and the officer of the law he's required to be. When an off-duty shooting prompts an internal investigation, Hanson must finally face who he is, and which side of the law he really belongs on.
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This is such a change from the trending UK noir style I‘ve been reading lately. Ex-Vietnam vet and ex-English literature professor becomes a cop in 1983 Oakland, a city slipping into the abyss. Angry but trying to be a honorable man, Hanson struggles with law vs moral justice. Plain, clean writing by author whose last book was 20 years ago. My eyes are tired, read it one go, really couldn‘t put it down.

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