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Title details for Line of Sight by James Queally - Available

Line of Sight

by James Queally
Keith Sellon-Wright
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All favors come with a cost, and after using what little favors he has in the Newark PD to get his private investigator's license, former crime reporter Russell Avery finds himself paying.
He spends his days reluctantly keeping sideways cops out of the crosshairs of the Internal Affairs department. Until Keyonna Jackson, a social justice activist, presents him with a troubling video: a made-for-Youtube cell phone snippet chronicling the same kind of questionable use-of-force that had set New York City, Ferguson, and Cleveland on fire in recent years. The same use-of-force that he's been covering up for Newark PD.
Now, the young black man who filmed this video is dead and the more questions Russell asks, the less his cop buddies like him. For the first time in his life, Russell finds himself on the wrong side of the guys with the badges and guns. When details of the shooting become public—and a city with race riots in its DNA flirts with the idea of letting history repeat itself—Russell finds himself allying with street activists and gang members as he races to put together the biggest story of his life . . . before the city he needs to tell it to burns down around him.

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  • Release date

    May 12, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781977363312
      • File size: 251911 KB
      • Duration: 08:44:48

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from January 20, 2020
      Crime reporter Queally makes his impressive fiction debut with a hard-hitting crime novel set in Newark, N.J. PI Russell Avery, a once idealistic white journalist bounced from his newspaper job, now fixes things for screwed-up cops. When Keyonna Jackson, a black social justice activist who serves as Avery’s conscience, spurs him into probing the shooting death of black teenager Kevin Mathis, a suspected drug dealer, Avery plunges into a miasma of police corruption and reconnects with former girlfriend Dina
      , a reporter bent on unmasking crooked cops. The deeper he investigates, the more Avery becomes convinced that he’s been looking for heroes and villains in a city that breeds only survivors—and where protecting and serving are too often reduced to doing evil so that good may result. This scalding exposé of human failures, in which friendships go tragically sour, powerfully updates Raymond Chandler’s mean streets. Queally is definitely a writer to watch. Agent: James McGowan, BookEnds Literary.

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