Martin Grey, the main character, is intelligent and a bit of an idealist and at times does things that we as the reader know are a bit reckless but we can’t help but like him and root for him, all the same.
Smith’s writing is fully descriptive and his clever way of telling the story explains the legacy of slavery in details that the average person may not be ready to read, but tells the cold hard history that is never told in history class. The novel is extremely engrossing, a real page turner, and very difficult to put down.
Little does he know, they are resolute in the idea of preserving slavery where they are the masters and white people are their slaves. Forty Acres, is about a young upcoming African-American Civil Rights lawyer who gets involved with a secret organisation of affluent African-American businessmen. After reading the premise of the novel I was immediately intrigued and wanted to know more about it. Trapped inside a picture-perfect, make-believe world that is home to a frightening reality, Martin must find a way out that will allow him to stay alive without becoming the very thing he hates.Ī novel of rage and compassion, good and evil, trust and betrayal, Forty Acres is the thought-provoking story of one man’s desperate attempt to escape the clutches of a terrifying new moral order.I picked up Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith, while browsing on Amazon.
Martin finds out that his glittering new friends are part of a secret society dedicated to the preservation of the institution of slavery-but this time around, the black men are called “Master.” Joining them seems to guarantee a future without limits rebuking them almost certainly guarantees his death. But far from home and cut off from everyone he loves, he discovers a disturbing secret that challenges some of his deepest convictions… They invite him for a weekend away from it all-no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. He’s dazzled by what they’ve accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be as successful as they are. Martin Grey, a smart, talented black lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, becomes friendly with a group of some of the most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men in America. Read the page-turning, provocative thriller that will forever change the way you think about slavery and its legacy in today’s America. “A thriller in a class by itself - brilliant and scary!” - Terry McMillan
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