"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
--Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher PM Press/noir enthusiast
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Ron, I may have suggested this before, but you should read (if you haven't already) Bill Fletcher Jr.'s "The Man Who Fell From The Sky", which is about racism and the Cape Verdean community of veterans on Cape Cod, MA. It's a murder mystery a la Walter Moseley.
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