Retired Detroit police officer Joe Salk was a good cop, but after a little girl's murder, his wife left him because of his obsession to find her killers. Now completely alone, his need for revenge might just be helped by the young victim, returned and empowered by the spirit of vengeance, the Crow..[...]

In the village of Gibbeah - where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives - magic coexists with religion, and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is fought between two men of God. The story begins when a drunkard named Hector Bligh (the 'Rum Preach[...]

When James O Barr poured the pain and anguish of a personal tragedy into the drawings that comprise "The Crow," his intensely cathartic story of Eric who returns from the dead to avenge his and his fiancee s murder at the hands of a street gang resonated with readers around the world. Now, the illus[...]

"A powerful first novel . . . Writing with assurance and control, James uses his small-town drama to suggest the larger anguish of a postcolonial society struggling for its own identity."
--"New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"
"Elements coalesce in a Jamaican stew spicier than jerk [...]