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The Fathers
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781539919711
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 17 2017
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A San Diego courtroom is set to become a pressure cooker when the trial of a young African American boy begins.
During spring break JC Young throws a party while his father, Jack Young, is away on a golf outing. Hardcore drug dealer T-Bone comes along with the usual high school supplier, and when he sees the upscale California home, he cases the house. T-Bone returns and brings along a youthful accomplice, Latif Ahmad, so if they get caught, he can plea-bargain his way out of jail-time. Burglary turns deadly when the drug-dealer goes rogue and brutally kills JC and his fifteen-year old sister.
The following evening, Jack Young is told by police and a priest when he arrives home at the San Diego International Airport.
Amir Ahmad, commander of the Black Panthers learns his son, Latif, has been arrested as a suspect while watching the early-morning news.
Amir's celebrity causes the court and media to turn its full attention to Latif-T-Bone gets his opening to plea-bargain-and a hostile community readies for a death penalty trial.
A study in racial bias and based on a real event, The Fathers is a twenty-first century To Kill a Mocking Bird.
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