![]() What makes One-Shot Harry a standout is the cityscape of mid-century L.A it summons up - its music, chromium cars, hateful slurs, "invisible" racial boundaries and cautious hopes. In the course of investigating a friend's suspicious death, Harry finds himself facing off with a white supremacist group who wants the speedometer of racial progress pushed way back down. His job gives him entrée into neighborhoods and events that might otherwise be off-limits to him because of his race. with his Speed Graphic camera, is the best of all possible guides to this watershed moment. Harry, a Black freelance news photographer who roams all over L.A. ![]() in 1963, as racial tensions are escalating in advance of Martin Luther King's upcoming Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field. He's the star of this new hard-boiled mystery by veteran crime writer Gary Phillips. Group decisions are not something Harry Ingram worries about. Penguin Random House One-Shot Harry, by Gary Phillips
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