9780880709392. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 612. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 612 p. When a senseless murder drags Clarence Abernathy a black Oregon columnist into the disorienting world of inner-city gangs and racial conflict he desperately seeks answers to the murder and to his own inner struggles regarding race and faith. Encouraged by fellow columnist Jake Woods Clarence forges an unlikely partnership with a homicide detective and faces the urban terror that robbed him of loved ones while unseen eyes watch from above.