Southern Cross
John Marshall Tanner Investigation 9
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
An intriguing request from a friend at his twenty-fifth college reunion takes P.I. John Marshall Tanner to Charleston, South Carolina.
Seth Hartman fought for civil rights in the sixties, and his past is catching up to him. Branded as a traitor to his race by the Alliance for Southern Pride, the lawyer is now receiving death threats from the right-wing hate group.
Going undercover at the Alliance, Tanner finds himself at the heart of a racial debate that is still very much alive as he struggles to discover just who is behind the group, and why they are targeting Seth.
Tanner uncovers shocking secrets both new and old in his efforts to unearth the answers - the kind that could get a San Francisco P.I. killed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This ninth John Marshall Tanner novel (after Blood Type ) shows off the witty and trenchant Greenleaf in fine form. This time his middle-aged San Francisco private eye travels to Charleston, S.C., to aid a much admired college friend, civil rights lawyer Seth Hartman, who has received a death warrant from a right-wing hate group, the Alliance for Southern Pride. Marsh, regretful for not having participated in the civil rights movement, hopes his help will serve as a belated contribution to the cause. The portrait of Charleston, a town that still `` lives most of its life in another century,'' is convincing, as is the gallery of intriguing characters: Seth's estranged son Colin, a skinhead associated with ASP; the voluptuous charmer Jane Jean Hendersen, whom Seth has loved since they campaigned in the voter registration drive in 1966; her patriarchal, lawyer father; Alameda Smallings, the young black woman who wants to enter The Palisade, Charleston's all-white military academy; and the menacing field marshall of ASP's Purification Brigade. In doing his best to lance the festering boil of race hatred, Marsh uncovers old and new secrets that cast a harsh light on many, including his former classmate and idol.
