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Article: `Love and Death in Brooklyn' by Glenville Lovell; `No Laughing Matter' by Peter Guttridge.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- November 24, 2004
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Byline: Oline H. Cogdill
EXPLORING NEW YORK'S BLACK WORLD
``Love and Death in Brooklyn'' by Glenville Lovell; Putnam ($23.95)
One of the happiest days _ the reunion of an estranged father and son _ becomes one of the family's saddest when the younger man is killed in front of his family during a party at an African restaurant in Brooklyn.
While the family grieves, former NYPD detective Blades Overstreet wonders who was the real target of the hit man. Ronan Plantier was a rising star in city politics, whose unbending focus on making black neighborhoods safe earned him plaudits and threats. His father, Noah, had been a respected ...