| International Standard Book Number |
9780593875704
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593875702
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| Personal Name |
Crump, Benjamin, 1969- author.
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| Title Statement |
Worse than a lie / Ben Crump.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Publisher |
©2026.
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| Publisher |
New York : Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
355 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| Series Statement - Title |
Beau Lee Cooper Bk 1
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Lawyers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Police corruption Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American men Fiction. Crimes against
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Chicago (Ill.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Legal fiction (Literature) lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction) lcgft.
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