Blood posse - Phillip Baker

Rastamen armed with pump-action shotguns under their green army coats stood outside the building like soldiers on the Russian army front. Black folks condemned to the hell of their own making walked up and down the sidewalk showing sour faces. The sun was high above dark clouds that set over the area like a curse. Drug additcts with creepy watery eyes staggered out of the building. Cops were near, sitting, waiting in front of the park like carrion birds sniffing for dead meat.

It is the early 1970s in Brooklyn and the Jamaicans are settling extremely uneasily in to the Afro-American community. At a party in the gymnasium of the local high school a teenage friend of Danny Palmer is brutally stabbed to death, igniting the flames of racial gang war, and starting Danny on a course that will change his life for ever.

Blood Posse is an extremely harrowing, moving and frightening novel. A modern-day morality tale which illuminates the many hypocrisies of contemporary society, the disasters associated with the handling of drugs, and the difficulties of racial integration.

Blood Posse announces the arrival of an important new voice in literary fiction.