Dr. No

Wala Kitu is a professor of mathematics at Brown University, specializing in nothing. Kitu is content with nothing – studying it, having it, doing it – until his research places him in the sights of billionaire and would-be Bond villain John Sill. Sill enlists the professor’s help to steal a deposit of nothing from Fort Knox to reduce the United States to nothing, seeking vengeance for the murder of his father, a witness to the state-sanctioned assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. His mission is everything: ‘This country has never given anything to us and it never will.'

The Trees

When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, facing resistance from the local sheriff and a mob of racist townsfolk. Less predictable is the second corpse at each crime scene: a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier. What begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into America’s violent past.

James (Hardback)

The Mississippi River, 1861. Enslaved Jim overhears he is to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans, separating him from his wife and daughter forever. He hides on Jackson’s Island to formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father. Their dangerous journey by raft along the Mississippi River leads them toward the elusive promise of freedom. Each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise, as James faces the burden of protecting his family while living a constant lie. Together, they must confront the most dangerous odyssey of all.