"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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This is really good; I'm trying to think of people to send it to who could really benefit from it. Older white people who feel themselves different from the victims of police violence -- race, generation, and culture difference make this a large gap -- which an article like this may be able to penetrate some semi-atrophied minds.
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