Book Review Podcast Hands Up - Police Procedural Drama

Hands Up is a disturbing story of Tyrell, a young black male, who was shot and killed by Ryan, a white rookie police officer. This premise alone is enough to invoke feelings of anger, sorrow and  guilt.

• The author Stephen Clark does a fine job bringing to the reader an engrossing gripping story of racism and injustice. The readers is almost immediately faced with the fact that Tyrell was unarmed, at the time he came into contact with the police officer, Ryan and his older/senior partner, Greg. Hands Up brings to the reader an all too realistic story of another young black male’s shocking and unwarranted death. 

• Hands Up is reinforces the shock and grief felt by citizens of a country that was formed on the basis of freedom and equality. And the people of this country are constantly confronted, and literally bombarded, with similarly tragic, and completely avoidable deaths of black men. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that racism is somehow (yet inexplicably to me) still alive.

• I am writing this book review within just a couple of weeks of Martin Luther King Day. I feel in my heart that this country is sorely in need of another man such as the great Dr. King. Martin  was the man with a dream shared by black citizens of this country. And that same dream, I am sure is, shared by disenfranchised people everywhere.

• In my lifetime, I have witnessed great changes in this country. I feel proud to be employed in a workplace that sets a good example of how a company free of discrimination empowers its workforce. But, as a country, we still have much work to do towards true equality.

• Hands Up is a compelling story. The characters are realistic and ring true. And while the murder of Tyrell is tragic, the reader is confronted with not just tragedy, but with anger, distrust, hate, and racism. Hands Up serves up a compelling story that will make you think. And hopefully, it will also make us act.

• As the adoptive (and Caucasian) parent of three children of another race, it is my hope that we can all share the same dream as Martin Luther King. We the people are afforded the right to make decisions and choices. Let us go forward in making the right ones, the ones that will ensure freedom and justice for us all.

Hands Up is a very good "five-star" read with a gripping and authentic story.
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