From a two-time Edgar Award nominee, Streets

of Fire is a haunting story of murder and injus-

tice.

Winner of a Mystery Writers of America

Edgar nomination for Best Novel, Thomas

Cook s Sacrificial Ground was one of the most

highly praised thrillers of 1988. In January

1989, his new book, Flesh and Blood, was just

as acclaimed: "Cook is an important talent,"

wrote the LosAngeles Times, "not just an excep-

tional plotter, but a prose stylist."

Now, in Streets of Fire, Cook has written his

best work yet--a novel of extraordinary power.

Birmingham, Alabama, May 1963: As the city

turns into a sweltering oven, the first of Martin

Luther King Jr. s civil rights demonstrations

begin to fill the streets, and amidst the mount-

ing turmoil, a young black girl is found dead--

murdered.

Veteran homicide detective Ben Wellman is

handed the job of investigating the murder. His

search runs down a twisting,erratic trail from

the white-columned mansions of Mountain

Brook to the shothouses and poolhalls of the

black district of Bearmatch, and the more he

probes, pulling at the layers of bitterness and

greed surrounding the mystery, the more resis-

tance he seems to encounter from all quarters,

white and black.