The Omission of Billy Seldom
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Book Overview Born in 1892 in McHenry, Mississippi, December Williams is the youngest of eleven children in a family hardened by poverty and terror. Th...
Born in 1892 in McHenry, Mississippi, December Williams is the youngest of eleven children in a family hardened by poverty and terror. The son of a sharecropper and maid, he grows up under the looming menace of white hoods and burning crosses, witnessing racial violence that forces his family to flee north to Memphis, TN.
After the untimely death of his aunt, December inherits a juke joint while still barely a man. What begins as survival becomes education. Behind the music, liquor, and night life, he sees the machinery of Jim Crow up close: shakedowns, police brutality, extortion, and white men who profit from Black labor without consequence. Every dollar he earns is squeezed. Every success is taxed by fear.
But December refuses to be broken by violence. Rather than surrender to brutality; he chooses a far more dangerous path... one of psychological warfare.
Noticing the quiet infatuation white women have with him, he devises a plan-not to love them, not to save them, but to weaponize the one thing Southern white men value most: the white woman's purity myth. From the shadows, December builds a clandestine empire, positioning himself as the unseen architect while a white front man shields the operation. His rule is simple and ruthless... his women entertain only white men.
It is revenge through psychology, profit reclaimed through subversion, and power seized without firing a single shot.
But in early twentieth-century America, a Black man who manipulates the racial order, even invisibly, plays a deadly game. As December's underground empire grows, it draws the attention of the Irish mob, and the balance of power begins to shift.
In a world ruled by terror, taboo, and tyranny, December must decide: is he reclaiming dignity... or becoming the very thing he despises?
A sweeping historical novel of ambition, race, power, and the dangerous cost of calculated revenge.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Publisher: INDEPENDENT CAT | ISBN: 9798994546
FormatHardcover
ISBN9798994546
EAN9798994546703
PublisherINDEPENDENT CAT
Publication Date2026-02-03
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.99 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height1.25 Inches
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