Thomas Mullen

Focuses on a small logging town in Washington and what happens when they try to protect themselves from the virulent flu epidemic of 1918....

Responding to pressure, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers. It's a victory of sorts, though the newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility....

Officer Denny Rakestraw, "Negro officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, and Sergeant McInnis have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta....

Atlanta, 1948. Boggs und Smith sind unter den ersten schwarzen Polizisten, die das Atlanta Police Department auf Anweisung von oben einstellen muss...

Late one night in August 1934, following a yearlong spree of bank robberies across the Midwest, Jason and Whit Fireson are forced into a police shootout and die....

Atlanta, 1948. In this city all crime is black and white. On one side of the tracks are the rich white neighbourhoods, on the other Darktown, the African American area....

Lightning Men follows the multiaward-nominated, highly acclaimed crime debut Darktown into a city on the brink of huge and violent change - and full of secrets....