Forty Acres

Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780571317424.

Martin Grey, a smart, talented. young lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, is taken under the wing of a secretive group made up of Americas most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men. Hes dazzled by what they have accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be one of them They invite him for a weekend away from it all - no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. But what he discovers, far from home, is a disturbing alternative reality which challenges his deepest convictions... A novel of rage and compassion, trust and betrayal, Forty Acres is the story of one mans desperate attempt to escape the clutches of a terrifying new moral order.