Johnny Get Your Gun
Written by John Ball
Narrated by Dion Graham
4/5
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About this audiobook
The third novel in the acclaimed Virgil Tibbs mystery series
When a nine-year-old boy shoots an older child, a race war is ignited between militant blacks and racist whites of 1960s Pasadena. Follow black homicide detective Virgil Tibbs as he investigates the scene of the conflict involving riots, brutalities, a chase through Disneyland, and a heartwarming—and heartbreaking—scene that takes place in the baseball stadium of the former Los Angeles Angels.
Here you will find childhood gone awry, racism that ought to shock but in context does not (we know it too well), and political conflicts that add fuel to the fire.
John Ball
John Ball was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ending was totally unexpected (at least by me!). Sadly, many of the issues are still relevant today, 50 years after this was first published, such as poor relations between the police and black people. Tibbs is a great character; while I haven't read "In the Heat of the Night", I love the film with Sidney Poitiers and have seen it several times. I hadn't realized that Ball wrote a whole series around this character until I got this audiobook from the 2018 SYNC offerings - I will have to read more of them!
Dion Graham does a splendid narration in this audiobook edition. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Infuriatingly boring!!!It's like those $0.25 books you always find molding away at church tag sales. Mediocre author with a boring plot.The main character is a nine year old boy with less personality than a cat turd.