Perdition USA - Ivan Monk Author:Gary Phillips In a rundown industrial town, someone is killing young black men. Because the victims fall into types that too many consider human refuse--hustlers, drug dealers, junkies--no one registers the killings. But the girlfriend of one of the victims, a single teenage mother, refuses to let the death of her lover go un-investigated. She hires private e... more »ye, Ivan Monk, to look into the murder. He too is inclined to write them off as causalities of urban warfare, but soon discovers that the truth is much more insidious, systematic, and genocidal.« less