Freedomland

Dazed and bleeding Brenda Martin stumbles into a city hospital and tells anastonishing story first about the black man who hijacked her car. Then abouther young... » 

Dazed and bleeding Brenda Martin stumbles into a city hospital and tells anastonishing story first about the black man who hijacked her car. Then abouther young son who was asleep in the back seat. As the nation watchesspellbound frantic police descend on the housing projects searching for astolen child tearing apart a neighborhood that doesnt need an excuse toexplode. An edgy young reporter hustles her way into the eye of the storm. Agood cop stands at an impossible spot. And soon all the pain hope and madnessof a heatsoaked city will come pouring out into the streetsbecause of a storythat may be true or may be the most horrifying lie of all. . . .Richard Price returns to the gritty urban landscape of his New York Timesbestseller CLOCKSERS in a vibrant gutwrenching masterpiece of suspense anovel that is as timely as recent headlines and as universal as our own worstnightmares. «