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Midnight in Atlanta

by Thomas Mullen, published on May 5, 2021 by Éditions Payot & Rivages.


Her favorite quote:

“Perhaps the best way to reform the system was from the outside, after all.

Maybe it was better this way.

Maybe he hadn't just given up.

"


Why this book?

  • Because Thomas Mullen weaves his story with fictional characters

    evolving in a historical period that he has carefully studied. Here and there we come across real events and his whole story rings true. This is what I appreciate most of all about his writing. We really have the impression of experiencing situations. We feel the tensions, the fear, the small victories. We revolt with those who fight, we clench our fists, we cry out in front of so much injustice, bad faith, lies and manipulation.

  • Because the writing is powerful, the text rich, complete.

    We learn a lot about the United States of the 1950s by discovering these adventures.

    The investigation is far from simple, the false leads and the ramifications are numerous, the past life of each protagonist will resurface in different ways, all of this makes the text more and more addicting.

    The protagonists are all interesting in their evolution, including McInnis: they have their flaws, they are human therefore imperfect.


The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

 The black boss of a newspaper is killed.

White police find suspects and look no further.

A former cop turned journalist, helped by his former police colleagues, will lead the investigation.

Characters.

 Smith, former police officer, turned journalist.

McInnis and Boggs, police officers with whom he worked.

White or black police.

FBI agents.

Women.

Places.

 Atlanta.

The time.

 In 1956.

The author.

 Thomas Mullen, born in 1974 in Providence, Rhode Island, is an American novelist, author of detective novels.

In 2006, he published his first novel,

The Last Town on Earth

, with which he won the 2007 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction.

This book was read with

 various emotions as I lived what I read.

The revolt has inhabited me, hope too, anger against injustice, but when you see the evolution of some, you can close the novel by telling yourself that you have to believe in man.

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