02751cam a2200457 i 4500 383542957 TxAuBib 20190530120000.0 170620s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017946257 9780316509640 0316509647 9780316417532 031641753X (OCoLC)1021853629 TxAuBib rda Mosley, Walter. Down the River unto the Sea / Walter Mosley. First edition. New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2018. ©2018. 322 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Jacket. "Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in equal measure while behind bars, his work and his daughter are the only light in his solitary life. When he receives a card in the mail from the woman who admits she was paid to frame him those years ago, King realizes that he has no choice but to take his own case: figuring out who on the force wanted him disposed of-and why. Running in parallel with King's own quest for justice is the case of a Black radical journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and women within the city's poorest neighborhoods. Joined by Melquarth Frost, a brilliant sociopath, our hero must beat dirty cops and dirtier bankers, craven lawyers, and above all keep his daughter far from the underworld in which he works. All the while, two lives hang in the balance: King's client's, and King's own."--from Publisher's website. 20190530. cat sampler 20190408 kjw. African American detectives Fiction. Private investigators Fiction. Private investigators New York (State) New York Fiction. Judicial error Fiction. Ex-police officers Fiction. Police corruption New York (State) New York Fiction. Police corruption Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Ex-convicts Fiction. New York (N.Y) Race relations Fiction.