Blood and Brotherhood: SYNOPSIS:

In Blood and Brotherhood, PETE JENKINS, a former veteran of the Great European War, joins Marcus Garvey's African Legion and rises to the rank ofSecurity Commander. GRADY JONES, a soldier whose life PETE saves, isrecruited by military intelligence to spy on Garvey's movement. GRADYalso must learn the identity of the double agent leaking informationto Negro militants. Military intelligence is especially alarmed that adouble agent informs the African Blood Brotherhood of the KU KLUX KLAN's plan to destroy the Negro community in Tulsa. GRADY uses the green-eyed Jamaican beauty, JULIA DUNCAN, to seduce PETE. However, when JULIA and PETE fall in love, they must flee to Los Angeles to escape both Garvey's hit men and government agents. PETE and JULIA arrive in Los Angeles just in time for PETE to become involved in the KLAN's threat to apply the  Tulsa-solution to LA's Central Avenue neighborhood.

Set against the background of the Roaring Twenties when lawlessness,government wrongdoing and the Ku Klux Klan rule the land, Blood and Brotherhood dramatizes the epic struggle of the New Negro to win his freedom. Ittells the story of military's obsession with the 200,000 Negroesreturning from the Great European War. The military trained Negroes tokill whites in Europe and now believes these Negroes will to do itagain in the United States. It also tells about the secret brotherhoodof black men bound by their loyalty to each other and how in preventingthe lynching of Negroes in the first world war, the brotherhood savesthe son of it's founder in the second.

Title: Frank Yerby: A Victim's Guilt

Synopsis:

FRANK YERBY is on his deathbed … and he knows it. But death frightens Yerby not at all. Death infuriates him. Death means that none of his literary accomplishments will be appreciated. And he will be denied the acclaim that he deserves. But even as Yerby’s mind rages against this unkind fate, characters from his books … his own creations … rage against him. They accuse him of being the author of his own failure and, in turn, casting them into oblivion. So Yerby's characters determine that he must unravel the mystery of the 'victim's guilt'. In part one, SUMAYLA summons Frank Yerby back to 9th century Spain using the powers of Jewish mysticism. Sumayla is allied with the grand vizier who plots to overthrow the Emir of Cordoba. In the second part, the leader of a Voodoo cult conjures up a spell to bring Frank Yerby to Cuba. The Voodoo priest wants Yerby to assist and protect his nephew, PEDRO, who plans to lead an insurrection of Negro slaves and Cuban haciendados against Cuba’s rulers.In the third part, ELLEN causes the rape and murder of her sister and must flee only to become embroiled in the bloody Kansas border war. When she is sold into slavery, Frank Yerby must come to her rescue.