Barry C. Davis

• Mar-2009
• / Suspense
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Sweets Maybrey is hard. In the language of the streets, this describes an individual who uses fists first, words second, to solve his problems. Twenty-year-old Sweets has just gotten his life straight after two stints in prison and is graduating high...

• Sep-2009
• / Suspense
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It is December 1972. Sweets Maybrey climbs the stairs to his office. He is wounded from an assassination attempt, blood slowing leaking out of his neck. He sits at his ancient desk, awaiting the arrival of the person who orchestrated the attempt on h...

• Jan-2010
• / Suspense
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Philadelphia crime boss Sweets Maybrey has a dead body in his trunk and a weapon underneath his seat. He travels in a stolen car to a destination in the Pocono Mountains called Deer Lake. The destination has meaning to him, less so for his 'passenger...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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In the novel “Dead Man Running,” Congressman Ben Wiley, is your typical urban politician �" corrupt, over sexed, on the take �" truly a man of his people. In the midst of his campaign for re-election, Wiley dies under unfortunate circumstances....

• Feb-2014
• / Historical
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JIMMIE BARNES is a novel that addresses the issue of race in America. The story takes place in 1988 at the tail end of Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution. Jimmie Barnes is a Mississippi nursing home resident who claims to be well over one hundre...

• Mar-2014
• / Historical
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A chilly spring night in rural South Carolina at the tail end of Reconstruction, the murder of innocents. This is the setting for the initial chapter of the historical thriller, A Strange and Bitter Fruit. Thomas “Tee” Powell, 15, manages to esca...

• Oct-2014
• / General Fiction
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Race. A four letter word unlike any other. A live wire, the third rail, the thing your momma told you to be afraid of, the creature that goes bump in the night. This ambitious, hard-hitting anthology takes on race relations in America, past and prese...