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Add a protection racket and quarrels and you have a fast-paced, multi-faceted mystery packed with conspiracies and adventure. Bellona's residents (mostly poor and black) live on looted cans of food; there's no economy to speak of, gossip is the most highly valued commodity, and a gang of thugs (eventually headed by the main character, Kid, an amnesiac and possibly Native American poet) runs a haphazard protection racket. With it the mini protection racket of Trick or Treat. |
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