DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA
ONe of the world’s most gifted crime writers tells the story of Joe King Oliver, a top black investigator in the NYPD until he was framed for assault and despatched to solitary confinement in the infamous rikers Island prison. Ten years later, King is a private detective, running an agency with the help of his teen daughter.
He is consumed by the case of a black radical journalist accused of murdering two corrupt on-duty officers who had been trafficking drugs and women.
Suddenly, he receives a card from a woman who admits she was paid by someone in the NYPD to frame him a decade ago. King begins to delve into who on the force wanted him gone — and why — as well as whether there is a connection between his disgrace and the two dead officers. exceptional.