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With an introduction by bestselling author Walter Mosley: A black expatriate writer uncovers a sinister plot to destroy the American civil rights movement in this incendiary masterpiece from one of the twentieth-century’s most provocative and acclaimed novelists On a warm spring afternoon in 1964, Max Reddick sits at an outdoor café in Amsterdam, nursing a glass of Pernod. Along with the large doses of Librium and morphine running through his veins, the alcohol allows him to forget the circumstances that have brought him here and the painful disease ravaging his body—almost, in fact, to forget who and what he is.   From the streets and corporate offices of New York to the jazz clubs of Paris and Amsterdam, from the battlefields of World War II to utopian missions in Africa, to the Oval Office itself, Max’s journey as a black author and journalist has brought him repeatedly into the nexus of hypocrisy and duplicity surrounding race relations and civil rights. But nothing he has encountered could have prepared him for the devastating and unspeakably dangerous truth he faces over the next twenty-four hours.   Through the eyes of Max, with penetrating fictional portraits of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Malcolm X, among other historical figures, author John A. Williams reveals the hope, courage, and bitter disappointment of the postwar era. Infused with powerful artistry, searing anger, as well as insight, humanity, and vision, The Man Who Cried I Am is an American classic.