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"From the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series who has been deemed &#8220;one of America&#8217;s best mystery writers&#8221; (The New York Times Book Review) comes a tale about a murdered man who does not want to go to heaven or hell&#8212;he&#8217;d rather have his old life in Harlem.Tempest Landry is neither a good nor a bad man, but an average man trying to survive. Sure, he stole money from his mother&#8217;s church, but he used it to pay for his aunt&#8217;s groceries while she was recovering from pneumonia. And yes, Tiny Henderson went to jail because of Tempest&#8217;s white lie, but the brutal rapist and murderer deserved it. After a cop &#8220;accidentally&#8221; kills Tempest, Tempest is denied access to heaven for his sins. But he brazenly refuses St. Peter&#8217;s command to proceed to hell&#8212;he would just as soon settle for his old life in Harlem. Temporarily stymied, St. Peter grants Tempest his wish&#8212;but in a different body and with a guardian angel following him around who is determined to convert him to righteousness. But the devil is also in the running for Tempest&#8217;s soul&#8212;and he wants it in a bad way. In this episodic and humorous homage to Langston Hughes&#8217; prescient narrator Jess B. Simple, readers are lured into the never-ending debate on the nature of good and evil. The Tempest Tales explores the provoking questions: Is sin the same for people of different races? Is sin judged the same for the poor as it is for the rich? And ultimately, who really gets to decide?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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