Showing results for "Black Mark" in Literary Fiction

Danish maths genius + Russian femme fatale = Intense Thriller Thomas Rasmussan is a man detached from his normal family life, using probability to navigate reality. A chance encounter triggers a string of events that lands him in Russia's toughest prison, known as the Black Dolphin...

Is the black man who sends his children to a very white private school "a sell out"? Is the black man with a good job and a white wife, a "race betrayer"? The nameless black narrator has done all the above, dragging himself from an impoverished urban ghetto to an upper middle-class life. He has done everything to assimilate into polite white English society, playing strictly by "their rules". As he attends a polo match with "society's finest"; his mask is slipping; cracks are beginning to appear in his apparently perfect life.