Forty acres
By: by Dwayne Smith
Publisher: Faber and Faber; Faber & Faber
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780571316700; 9780571317424
Subjects: African American lawyers; Secret societies; Fiction
Description: Martin Grey, a smart, talented young lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, is taken under the wing of a secretive group made up of America's most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men. He's dazzled by what they have accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be one of them They invite him for a weekend away from it all - no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. But what he discovers, far from home, is a disturbing alternative reality which challenges his deepest convictions ...