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Worse than a lie / Ben Crump.
Van Pelt Library PS3603 .R86 W67 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crump, Benjamin, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Crump, Benjamin, 1969- Beau Lee Cooper novel ; 1.
- A Beau Lee Cooper novel ; [1]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lawyers--Fiction.
- Lawyers.
- African American men--Crimes against--Fiction.
- African American men.
- Police corruption--Fiction.
- Police corruption.
- Police brutality--Fiction.
- Police brutality.
- Traffic stops (Law enforcement)--Fiction.
- Traffic stops (Law enforcement).
- Judicial error--Fiction.
- Judicial error.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Legal fiction (Literature)
- Physical Description:
- 355 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, [2026]
- Summary:
- "It's the night of November 4, 2008. America's first Black president has just been elected. And fifty-three-year-old Hollis Montrose--a Black ex-police officer from the suburbs of Chicago--has become the latest victim of a brutal attack. As the result of a traffic stop gone wrong, Hollis is shot ten times in cold blood, by four white men who could have been his colleagues back in his police days. Beau Lee Cooper was born serious, as if on an urgent mission with little time to waste. Raised in the tumultuous world of 1970s Texas, he always dreamed of becoming a lawyer and fighting for what's right, ever since he was a little boy reading To Kill a Mockingbird. And now, ten years into running his own law firm with his best friend and partner in crime, Nelson 'Nellie' Rivers, and his suave right-hand-man, Brent 'Cape' Capers, he feels he's finally making a difference. When Beau Lee learns about Hollis's situation, he's determined to help. Miraculously, Hollis survives the encounter, but the Chicago police department has already spun the narrative in its favor, and Hollis is given a wrongful prison sentence with an unreasonable bail. What really happened that night the car was pulled over? Was it random or was Hollis targeted? Beau Lee knows he's treading in dangerous waters, and finding evidence of the truth will be his biggest challenge yet, but with troubling powers at play, one innocent man's life hangs in the balance." -- Amazon.
- ISBN:
- 9780593875704
- 0593875702
- OCLC:
- 1557408688
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