by Dwayne Alexander Smith (Author)
Martin Grey, a smart, talented young lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, is taken under the wing of a secretive group made up of America's most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men. He's dazzled by what they have accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be one of them. They invite him for a weekend away from it all - no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. But what he discovers, far from home, is a disturbing organisation which challenges his deepest convictions...A novel of rage and compassion, trust and betrayal, Forty Acres is the story of one man's desperate attempt to escape the clutches of a terrifying new moral order.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 03 Jul 2014
ISBN 10: 0571317421
ISBN 13: 9780571317424
Book Overview: In Forty Acres by Dwayne Smith, a page-turning and provocative new novel, a young black attorney is thrown headlong into controversial issues of race and power.