Savage City

By Donald Levin

Book Overview

Detroit. 1932. The fates of four people converge during a violent week of labor unrest in the bleakest year of the Great Depression.

Detective Clarence Brown is one of a handful of Black officers in the Detroit Police Department, navigating a thicket of lies and racism to find the killer of a young Black man. Ben Rubin wants to move from petty crime into the ranks of Detroit's notorious Purple Gang. Elizabeth Waters is a fiercely independent Communist sympathizer who has turned her back on her privileged Grosse Pointe upbringing to join the workers' fight for a piece of the American dream. Roscoe Grissom is an unemployed auto worker enlisted by the fearsome Black Legion to sow terror as a night-riding emissary of hate.

Against the backdrop of the bloody Ford Hunger March, events hurl these four into the center of a political storm that will change them forever. Savage City spellbindingly captures a key inflection point in the creation of modern American life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997294183
• ISBN13: 9780997294187
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Poison Toe Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"