Author:Ron Stallworth
· ADAPTED AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BY SPIKE LEE
· NOMINATED FOR SIX 2019 ACADEMY AWARDS & WINNER OF 'BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY' BAFTA
· WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2018
· NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
What happens when a black detective goes undercover in the KKK? An extraordinary true story.
In 1978, Ron Stallworth is the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. In the local paper, he finds a classified ad for the Ku Klux Klan - and a P.O. box for interested enquiries.
All he's expecting are some racist brochures and a few scraps of information about the white nationalist terrorists in his community.
What he gets is a phone call inviting him to join the KKK.
So he does.
Launching an undercover investigation of incredible audacity, Ron recruits his partner Chuck to play the 'white' Ron Stallworth, while Stallworth himself talks to the Klan over the phone. During his months-long investigation, Stallworth sabotages cross burnings, exposes white supremacists in the military, and even manages to deceive the KKK "Grand Wizard" David Duke himself - dodging danger and reprisal at every turn...
Black Klansman is an amazing true story and a rollercoaster of a crime thriller; a searing and timely portrait of a divided America and the extraordinary heroes who dare to fight back.
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'Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.' - Robert Kennedy
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‘Remarkable… Stallworth tells a surprising story’ – Daily Express
Remarkable... Stallworth tells a surprising story
—— Daily ExpressHugely entertaining
—— Independent, on BlacKkKlansmanTwistedly funny
—— Dazed, on BlacKkKlansmanCompletely brilliant
—— James Corden, on BlacKkKlansmanSo wild you can barely believe it ... both hilarious and exquisitely direct
—— TIME, on BlacKkKlansmanA story well worth knowing
—— Daily Mail, on BlacKkKlansmanRon’s story is nearly too strange to be believed, which is precisely what makes it so compelling
—— Variety, on BlacKkKlansmanBefore you head for theaters, be sure you’ve read Black Klansman first. You’ll want the back-story. You’ll want the nuances. You’ll want every part of this book
—— Philadelphia TribuneLooks at what can be learnt from the very different history and experience of another doomed metropolis
—— Barnaby Rogerson , Sunday Telegraph SevenWith the acuity of Joan Didion and the controlled hilarity of Ian Frazier, Mark Binelli investigates the portents and absurdities of America’s most infamous urban calamity. Exhilarating in scope, irresistible for its intricate, scrupulous portraiture, [The Last Days of Detroit] is the masterful performance of one of our generation’s most humane and brilliant writers
—— Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything BurnedLet’s face it. Detroit City is not the place to be. But if you care about America you have to see it, to walk its desolate streets, to talk to the people who make it their home, to hear what it means to live on the wrong side of the post-industrial divide. And you’re not going to find a smarter, tougher, more entertaining guide than Mark Binelli
—— Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of JusticeMark Binelli has succeeded in synthesizing the tragedy and absurdity that Detroiters face each and every day in America’s fastest shrinking city. Yes, things are dire in Motor City, but Binelli refuses to perform an autopsy on a place that still radiates rage, pride, hustle, and hope. Detroit, he discovers, is very much alive
—— Heidi Ewing, director of DetropiaBefore turning the buffalo (or the artists) loose on the haunted prairie that was once Detroit, we should ponder why a great American metropolis was allowed to die. Mark Binelli, Motor City native returned, provides a picaresque but unflinchingly honest look at the crime scene. Like Richard Pryor, he has the rare talent to make you laugh and cry at the same time
—— Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear[The Last Days of Detroit] is a brilliant kaleidoscope of everything that is great, broken, inspiring, heart-breaking, and ultimately remarkable about Detroit. Mark Binelli has turned the story of the city, and by extension America, into a glorious, unforgettable work of art
—— Dinaw Mengestu, author of How to Read the AirAt once hilarious and sharp, sweeping and intimate, [The Last Days of Detroit] is an oddly delighted warning from the recent future. With the tender scrutiny of a returning exile, Mark Binelli has written a non-fiction novel about our American experiment, and it’s the most entertaining and persuasive book about this country I’ve read in a very long time
—— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of DirectionMark Binelli is a first-rate reporter, gifted with the ability to get almost anybody to open up. [The Last Days of Detroit] is searching, wide-angle, honest, deeply moving, and unshakably dark. It is a vivid slice of our time and implies a disquieting prophecy of the future
—— Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New YorkAn encounter with a longstanding black resident reveals underlying tensions “Detroit isn't some kind of abstract art project." Binelli's achievement is to make that vividly apparent
—— Andy Beckett , GuardianMark Binelli’s The Last Days of Detroit is a magnificent anthem to one of America’s most significant cities. He takes you on a tour into the dark heart of this once vibrant city, the home of the Ford car. This is a beautiful prose poem to a fascinating city and to post-industrial America
—— Patrick Neale , The BooksellerSucceeds in bringing out angles on Detroit that at least this casual observer hadn’t heard before
—— Rose Jacobs , FTBoth a history and a thoughtful travelogue… British readers might wonder what Detroit has to do with them, but the collapse of manufacturing, its yawning unemployed, the tension generated by a usually white liberal class who seize on gentrification possibilities (and the desire to turn dereliction into abstract art) are universal modern concerns
Mark Binelli’s surprisingly joyful book
—— Ed Caesar , Sunday TimesA remarkable trawl through the sorry and tragic recent history of a city that was once heralded as the future of the United States
—— Doug Johnstone , Big IssueBinellis shows us that a brighter economic future may be possible even in the most benighted of cities
—— Rohan Silva , ProspectThe value of this book lies not just in its compelling story, but in its lessons for all the West
—— Robert Chesshyre , Literary ReviewNow the city and above all its people have been brilliantly captured
—— David Goldblatt , Independent[A] wry, inquisitive survey of Detroit's troubled past and present... Surprisingly joyful
—— Sunday TimesThis journalistic account tells an enthralling, balanced story
—— Daily Telegraph