The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries

by Clyde W. Ford

This fast-paced thriller grabs readers and holds them to the end. Sue O'Brien - Booklist

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Midnight Ink (October, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738707856

Book Description

Framed and found guilty of a murder he didn't commit, NYPD officer John Shannon served two years in a federal penitentiary. When his conviction is overturned on appeal, Shannon walks out of prison to a life in shambles. His wife is contemplating divorce. The Feds are champing at the bit to throw him back in prison. His fellow police officers think he's a cop killer. Drug lords, street gangs, and the Mob all want a piece of him. And now his thirteen-year-old son has gone missing.

Shannon embarks on a dangerous quest to find his son and uncover the truth behind the bungled drug raid that cost him his career, his family, and his freedom. He's forced to flee from a police department he can no longer trust and to make a Faustian alliance with a shrewd Homeland Security operative who's got his own score to settle. On the run, but determined to see his family safe, Shannon's only allies are an idealistic young attorney, his estranged wife, a loyal cop, his own cunning and luck, and the strange yet powerful wisdom given to him by a lifer named Promise. John Shannon is in a race with time to redeem his reputation, reclaim his life, and save his son without losing his soul.

About the Author

Clyde Ford is the author of the acclaimed work of non-fiction The Hero with an African Face (Bantam), We Can All Get Along (Dell), and the new mystery novels Red Herring and the forthcoming Precious Cargo (Mystic Voyager Books). He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, National Public Radio, and has been featured in The Seattle Times and 150 other radio and television programs across the country. The second of Fords Shango Mystery series, Deuce's Wild is scheduled for a Spring 2006 release.

A native New Yorker, Ford is a noted mythologist, psychologist, and scholar who has taught at Columbia and Western Washington University. Founder of the Institute of African Mythology, the author currently lives near Seattle where he enjoys writing, sea-kayaking and cruising the waters of the Pacific Northwest in his single-engine trawler Mystic Voyager.