In James McBride’s Deacon King Kong, a hard-drinking, hallucinating Baptist deacon known as Sportcoat shoots the ear off a notorious drug dealer in broad daylight, and an aging cop and an Italian mobster try to save Sportcoat from meeting his end in the housing projects of Red Hook Brooklyn.
Read moreA Mystery in Red Hook
James McBride returns with a tale about a shooting gone wrong in late-60s Brooklyn