Huntsman

Kansas City is a metropolis so fractured by class & race that, by the early '90s, even childhood friends rarely cross the city's color line to speak. But when a young debutantes body washes up in the Missouri River, near death & the ensuing investigation-forces the city's inhabitants to examine their own buried history. In his atmospheric debut The Huntsman. Whitney Terrell weaves a provocative tale of past sins & present consequences. At the center of it is Booker short, as bitter young black man, who arrives in town bearing a grudge about the past. His ascent into white Kansas City society, his romance with Clarissa Sayers, & his subsequent involvement in her death polarize the city & leads to the final, shocking revelation of the wrong he's come to avenge. With vivid characters, & razor -sharp detail. Whitney Terrell has created a pungent, powerfully imagined novel that illuminates a society divided by it's past--& a part of the American Landscape that has remained untapped in American Fiction.Terrell, Whitney is the author of 'Huntsman' with ISBN 9780670894659 and ISBN 0670894656.