Target Zero: A Life in Writing

Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation love rage and among many fear. Target Zero brings Cleavers controversial story into focus through his own words. This books charts Cleavers life through his writings: his quiet childhood his youth spent in prison his startling emergence as a Black Panther leader who became a "fugitive from justice" by the end of 1968 his seven-year exile and his religious and political conversion following his return to the U.S. Target Zero which brings together previously unpublished essays short stories letters interviews and poems is the most significant collection of Eldridge Cleavers writing since his bestselling book Soul on Ice (1968).