Race: A Caleb Moon Thriller

by S.L.M.N.

A gripping thriller about a reporter risking his life to expose corrupt policing from a New York Times bestselling author.

Caleb Moon is a young idealistic journalist reporting on everyday racial injustices, but when he is arrested at a police brutality protest he meets a racist white cop. The interactions indicate the lengths to which racism is systemic and pushes Caleb’s approach to injustice from theory into practice.

Convinced that journalism isn’t how he will change the world Caleb chooses to help a black candidate run for mayor against the white incumbent. The experience exposes him to the machinations of voter suppression and the lengths to which those at the top will go to maintain the status quo. These revelations drive him further underground as he has made powerful enemies.

Race is a powerful, riveting, and timely novel about one man’s quest to destroy the system from within before it destroys him.

206 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 3, 2022

Reviews

[V · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was an ok book. It had way too many technical errors for me. There were 2 editors on the book and they did not catch that. It made the book less enjoyable. Also, the writer sometimes struggles with word variety (in my opinion). The story line is decent, but in a way, this is trauma porn. It was a bit jarring and unexpected, but it was good in the way that you wanted to keep reading to see where it would twist or turn next. I really did like the ending.

I found this book in my local library. It was a book you could keep on reading. Definitely not boring.

[Deborah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good easy read. Goodreads giveaway thank you.

[Jonathan Baker · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lot less sedier than most SLMN novels, I felt a lot better about this one...K'Wan is about the work and in a focused on a positive and uplifting narrative for the culture.

[Lederian Townsend · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing. Another “quiet, sensitive guy goes to jail” book. Had a cool (and relevant) premise. Execution didn’t deliver. Many printing errors that distracted from the overall story.

[First Clue · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reflecting the dark days of summer 2020, this book opens with Black reporter Caleb Moon covering the police killing of a Black boy and the local anger that has ensued. His editor is tiptoeing around the coverage and wants to cut the inflammatory detail that the police also shot the boy’s pet (“It’s just a fucking dog.”) He knows it’s relevant, though, when Caleb explains that the animal that three police officers found such a violent threat could fit in a colleague’s tiny purse. This is a case of overkill, and Caleb wants justice. He’s at first naïve enough to think that it might be in the cards, but then he attends the police chief’s speech about the situation, where white interlopers throw a bottle at the cops and disappear. Hope is close to vanishing; it evaporates entirely when a Black colleague is lynched.

Things can hardly get worse, but Caleb soon finds himself in jail when he won’t plead guilty to causing trouble at the speech. His experiences in jail, coupled with the growing mystery of who’s behind the racist corruption eating away at his unnamed small town, paint a stark picture of a world built on greed and white supremacy. Readers will be eager to meet this understated, determined young protagonist in further mysteries. The book doesn’t reveal SLMN’s identity, but notes that he is a New York Times best-selling author and a movie producer.—Henrietta Verma

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