{"product_id":"smoke-kings-9781685891114b","title":"Smoke Kings","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e Best Crime \u0026amp; Mystery Book of 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the vein of \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRazorblade Tears\u003c\/i\u003e, a feast of noir fiction and probing social commentary that asks us to consider what would happen if reparations were finally charged and exacted.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets 62 years after Emmett Till. When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their racist lineages, and forcing them to pay reparations to a community fund. For 3 of the group members, the results mean justice; for Nate – pure revenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot all targets go quietly into the night, though, and Nate and his friends' world spirals out of control when they confront the wrong man. Now the leader of a white supremacist group is hot on their tail as is a jaded lawman with some disturbingly racist views of his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the 4 vigilantes fight to thwart their ruthless pursuers, they’re forced to accept an age-old truth: \"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmoke Kings\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and propulsive novel with a diverse and unforgettable cast of characters. Like Steph Cha’s \u003ci\u003eYour House Will Pay\u003c\/i\u003e it explores decades of racial tensions through a fictional landscape where the line between justice and revenge is blurred.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42826272800848,"sku":"9781685891114B","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781685891114-l.jpg?v=1785904936","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/smoke-kings-9781685891114b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}