The Lost Brother

by Rick Bennet

Two investigations attempt to locate the murderer of a prominent black lawyer in Washington, D.C., one led by a private detective who has been hired by a white power group and the other by the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559703679
• ISBN13: 9781559703673
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

very well written crime/mystery w/racial politic overtones

in this novel, rick bennett has written a very well done crime fiction/whodunit. though there are overtones throughout the book of race re lations in present day america, they are in corporated into the story in such a way that they add to it instead of distract(they are not preachy, and bennett never much takes sides. his characters take sides, but he doesn't.the jist of the story is that a famous D.C. prosecuter is murdered and it seems to be the work of a white supremacist group. the prosecuter is black, in an interracial marriage(his wife is also murdered) the head of the white supremacist group hires a detective to try to prove that his organization had nothing to do with the murder. at the same time, the dead man's brother, fresh out of prison for murder himself, decides to find out what he can also. they both find, seperately and together, that there are no easy answers in this investigation, rather that there are implications all the way up to the highest levels of power brokers in D.C. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!