A Moment of Justice, A lifetime of Vengeance
John Wooden authors an eyebrow raising novel, that should scare the hoods off former KKK members, their families, and anyone else who lynched a black man during a time when America was muddling through the wrongs of its own Holocaust.
Kenny “KC” Carson, former NFL star turned FBI agent, is called back to work while morning the death of his baby sister, Alyse, to investigate the gruesome murder of US Senator and Presidential hopeful, Robert A. Cowen. To make matters worse, the senator’s murder is the tenth in a serial killer’s plan to bring justice to the fifteen people who tortured, taunted, and lynched Marcus Murray, an FBI operative just passing through, in Alabama over thirty years ago. He races to save the lives of the remaining members of they lynch mob; the same men who would have hung him from a tree, naked and beaten, back in the day.
Full of irony, this book is more than a suspenseful, murder mystery. It’s an account of the mean, cruel things done in the “dirty south”, a phrase that has been adopted by today’s youth just as the “n” word, and how the American government has not taken a stand for its own debased race – the Negro. It also schools the reader on the message behind “Strange Fruit”, a poem written by a Jewish schoolteacher after seeing a photograph of a lynching and later put to music by Billie Holiday in a haunting, condemning tune.
John’s book is passionate, provoking, and groundbreaking. The plot is well thought out with characters that are loveable, hate able, and down right irritating at times. Trying to figure out the case is pointless due to the large cast of characters, which can be confusing at times, and almost everyone shows small signs of motive.
This is a good, informative, and entertaining read.
A Moment of Justice
A Lifetime of Vengeance
John Wooden
Jbow Productions
ISBN: 0-76740400
Published: March 2005
Reviewed BY: Makasha Dorsey
Black Butterfly Review