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The Last King: A Maceo Redfield Novel

by Nichelle D Tramble

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

From the author of the highly acclaimed "The Dying Ground" comes a story about Maceo Redfield, who after being away for two years, returns to Oakland to help out an old friend who is accused of murder.

Review:

“[A] remarkable young novelist . . . Tramble proves herself an unpretentious poet whose sense of the inner city, its argot and its inhabitants, is almost romantic—and certainly vivid.”
—Philadelphia Weekly

Synopsis:

After two years of drifting I finally knew there was only one place that could offer me a shot at peace, and that was my hometown. The city was my crossroads, the crooked man with the slanted grin, my temptation, and I wanted to beat it. I wanted to win. . . .

Two years after leaving Oakland, Maceo Redfield returns to the city, where NBA All-Star Cornelius Cotton Knox has become tangled up in the murder of a local call girl. What could easily become a story for the tabloids turns personal when Maceo realizes that his estranged friend Holly Ford has also been linked to the crime.

Maceo's guilt at disappearing, coupled with a heartfelt plea for help from his Aunt Cissy, becomes a potent combination for a man seeking redemption. Taking it upon himself to clear his friend, Maceo stays one step ahead of the police as he traverses the dark corners of the San Francisco Bay Area. And in his quest for the truth, Maceo teams with a sultry con artist named Sonny Boston, an eight-cylinder chick with bodies in her past. While navigating the shifting alliances of a territory war, Maceo must also fight off an unseen enemy, a ruthless man with connections to Oakland, who came to town with two things in mind: destroying Holly and eliminating anybody who gets in his way.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780375758829
Subtitle:
A Maceo Redfield Novel
Author:
Tramble, Nichelle D
Author:
Tramble, Nichelle D.
Publisher:
One World/Strivers Row
Location:
New York
Subject:
Rape
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Series
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Subject:
Basketball players
Subject:
Male friendship
Subject:
Oakland
Subject:
African American men
Edition Number:
1st trade pbk. ed.
Series Volume:
2004-1
Publication Date:
June 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.04x5.32x.69 in. .52 lbs.

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