HARD REVOLUTION: 1959-1968 **LETTERED EDITION / SIGNED**AWARD FINALIST**

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2004. 1st edition, January 2004, so stated. LIMITED / LETTERED EDITION. Fine, unread copy still in shrink-wrap, in fine dust jacket and slipcase as issued. SIGNED and lettered by George P. Pelecanos on a special publisher's tipped in limitation page. ONE of 104 LETTERED COPIES. [this is copy S]. (Dennis placed a sticky label on the shrink-wrap to distiguish which copy it was). Bound in calfskin quarter-morocco with handmade paper-covered boards. A BARRY AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL. A prequel to the two Derek Strange novels illuminates his early life as a black cop in Washington in 1968. It's the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brink of civil war. Martin Luther King preaches in vain for non-violent protest and the ghettos of Washington DC seethe with anger. In the middle of this powder-keg is thrust a young black cop, barely out of school himself. Derek Strange believes passionately that he can make a difference, but his friends and family think he's a traitor and a patsy of the white establishment. On April 4th, 1968, Dr King is assassinated on the balcony of his motel in Memphis, Tennessee. And black America rises as one to condemn the slaying of their hero. For one week, it seems that the whole country will fall. And Derek, his brother, his father, his mother and his whole community find themselves at the heart of a battle for the heart and soul of the new world.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Quarter-morocco. New/Fine. Limited / Lettered Edition.