In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like the final straw-it led to a week of protests, then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge and caught the nation's attention. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma from which he would never recover. Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account."- Publishers WeeklyįINALIST FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL From the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore and governor-elect of Maryland, a kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an "illegal knife" in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated "roughly" as police loaded him into a vehicle. "An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray.
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