"A masterful job of capturing the grit and glory of daily newspaper life at a troubled time in American history. I couldn't stop thinking about these characters."
   ~ Meg Kissinger, Journalism Professer, Columbia University

COLOR OF THE SUN

The murder of a newspaper reporter during a 1967 riot pulls two of his colleagues deep into the contentious issues of race in America and into the secrets of a troubled inner city family. Did a nine-year-old boy pull the trigger?

Alternately solemn and irreverent, Douglas Armstrong's Color of The Sun looks back at an era when the civil rights movement rocked the social underpinnings of a nation, including old-boy, newspaper journalism.

Gabe Harden and Scott Patterson return in the second of Armstrong's 'Life on The Sun' series.

"Douglas Armstrong's Color of The Sun does a masterful job of capturing the grit and glory of daily newspaper life at a troubled time in American history. I couldn't stop thinking about these characters."

~ Meg Kissinger teaches investigative reporting at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
Douglas Armstrong reads from his novel, Color of The Sun.

COLOR OF THE SUN

The murder of a newspaper reporter during a 1967 riot pulls two of his colleagues deep into the contentious issues of race in America and into the secrets of a troubled inner city family. Did a nine-year-old boy pull the trigger?

Alternately solemn and irreverent, Douglas Armstrong's Color of The Sun looks back at an era when the civil rights movement rocked the social underpinnings of a nation, including old-boy, newspaper journalism.

Gabe Harden and Scott Patterson return in the second of Armstrong's 'Life on The Sun' series.

Novels by Douglas D. Armstrong

Excerpt

They still haven’t found out who shot Ed Bobolink in the early morning hours of July 31 as the violence spread up North Third Street. A lot of oppressors’ stores went up in flames that night, and then the trouble spread west on North Avenue and Center Street. Gabe wants to believe the shooter was aiming at him and hit Ed by accident. Me, I think Ed took a bullet because he was with Gabe, who dresses like a cop, walks stiff-necked like a cop, and even talks like a cop. Getting out of the car with him that night, Ed would’ve been taken for an Uncle Tom police informer, and he paid the price for it with his life.

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Novels by Douglas Armstrong