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THREE FIFTHS

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NOMINATED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 'Mesmerising' SUNDAY TIMES'Short, lucid and harrowing' OBSERVER'Dark, gritty and thrilling' DAILY MAIL'Incredibly suspenseful' ATTICA LOCKE***An Observer, Guardian and Sunday Times crime fiction/thriller of the month*** Set against the backdrop of the simmering racial tension produced by the LA Riots and the O.J. Simpson trial, comes this powerful hardboiled noir of violence and obsession Pittsburgh, 1995. When Bobby's best friend Aaron returns from prison a newly radicalized white supremacist, Bobby feels even more conflicted about hiding his own identity as a biracial Black man. During the night of their reunion, Bobby witnesses Aaron mercilessly assault a young Black man with a brick. In the wake of this horrifying act of violence, Bobby must conceal his unwitting involvement in the crime from the police, as well as battle his own personal demons. Three-Fifths is a harrowing story about racism and brutality that is more urgent now than ever. NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELNOMINATED FOR THE ANTHONY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELNOMINATED FOR THE STRAND CRITICS AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT NOVEL
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 15, 2019
      Vercher’s uneven debut, a crime novel set in 1995 Pittsburgh, Pa., gets off to a fast, violent start. Bobby Saraceno, the 22-year-old son of a single white mother, at first doesn’t recognize his best friend, Aaron, an investment banker’s son who recently spent three years in prison for selling drugs. Aaron, who hooked up with the Aryan Brotherhood while behind bars, has shaved his head and beefed up. When the two friends go out to eat, Aaron’s prison tattoos catch the eye of a young black man, Marcus Anderson. After a hostile verbal exchange, the ex-con hits Marcus in the head with a brick. The panicky Bobby drives away from the scene with Aaron. Marcus is transported to the ER, where he’s treated by Robert Winston, an unhappily married black doctor, who later heads to a bar to drown his sorrows. There Winston encounters Bobby’s mom, Isabel, whom he doesn’t recognize, though they once had a fling. Isabel, who knows he’s Bobby’s father, doesn’t identify herself. More coincidences follow as this gritty tale of race in America swerves into soap opera involving Isabel’s efforts to bring Winston and Bobby together. The contrived plot might work better on the big screen than it does on the page. Agent: Michelle Richter, Fuse Literary.

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