Green sun : a novel

Resource Information

The work Green sun : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Green sun : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Kent Anderson

Creator

• Anderson, Kent, 1945-

Subject

• Nineteen eighties -- United States | Oakland (Calif.) -- Fiction
• Oakland (Calif.) -- Fiction
• Police -- Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Veterans -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• An Oakland, California police officer is torn between his duties and his friendships after an off-duty shooting
• Oakland, California, 1983: a Vietnam veteran-turned-police officer strives to be both a good cop and a good man. Oakland in 1983 is a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons he brought home from the war. But Hanson knows that justice requires more than simply enforcing the penal code. He believes in becoming a part of the community he serves-which is why, unlike most officers, he chooses to live in the same town where he works. His sense of fairness and honor leads to a precarious friendship with Felix Maxwell, the drug king of East Oakland. He is befriended by Weegee, a streetwise eleven-year-old who is primed to become a dope dealer. He falls in love with Libya the moment he sees her, a confident and outspoken black woman. Every day, every shift, tests a cop's boundaries between the man he wants to be and the officer of the law he's required to be. When an off-duty shooting prompts an internal investigation, Hanson must finally face who he is, and which side of the law he really belongs on

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction