This follow-up to the multi-award nominated "Darktown" sees Officers Denny Rakestraw, Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith dealing with the KKK, family warfare and gang allegiances in 1950s Atlanta - a city in flux. The series has been posited as reading with the scope of an HBO epic, and was recently subject to a five-way TV rights bidding war.

Thomas Mullen is the internationally bestselling author of seven previous novels, including Darktown, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lightning Men, was named one of the Top Ten Crime Novels of the Year by The New York Times; and Midnight Atlanta. The latter two were shortlisted for CWA Dagger Awards. His debut, The Last Town on Earth, was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction. He lives in Atlanta.