Forty Acres
Will be published approx. on 2. October 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-0-571-31670-0 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author
'Amazing and unique.' WHOOPI GOLDBERG
'Like Grisham's The Firm (1991), Forty Acres pits a sharp legal mind against a deadly conspiracy of elites ... Highly recommended.' BOOKLIST
Martin Grey, a smart, talented. young lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, is taken under the wing of a secretive group made up of America's most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men. He's dazzled by what they have accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be one of them They invite him for a weekend away from it all - no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. But what he discovers, far from home, is a disturbing alternative reality which challenges his deepest convictions...
A novel of rage and compassion, trust and betrayal, Forty Acres is the story of one man's desperate attempt to escape the clutches of a terrifying new moral order.
'Amazing and unique.' WHOOPI GOLDBERG
'Like Grisham's The Firm (1991), Forty Acres pits a sharp legal mind against a deadly conspiracy of elites ... Highly recommended.' BOOKLIST
Martin Grey, a smart, talented. young lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, is taken under the wing of a secretive group made up of America's most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men. He's dazzled by what they have accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be one of them They invite him for a weekend away from it all - no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. But what he discovers, far from home, is a disturbing alternative reality which challenges his deepest convictions...
A novel of rage and compassion, trust and betrayal, Forty Acres is the story of one man's desperate attempt to escape the clutches of a terrifying new moral order.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-31670-0 (9780571316700)
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Dwayne Alexander Smith is a screenwriter and author living in Los Angeles. Forty Acres is his first novel.
Follow him on Twitter @writtenbysmith
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