A political thriller — Book One of the Trilogy
Vernice P. Cole committed no crime. He fit the description. What was meant to silence his family turned them into the face of a movement.
The Story
One stop changed everything...But the truth changes everyone!
Every afternoon, attorney and civil rights advocate, Vernice Cole, walks his daughter, Ava, home from school just like he always has. But one day, their routine is shattered when they're stopped by the police. Vernice is accused of "fitting the description" of a robbery suspect. No crime. No evidence. Just a profile. And in a moment of fear and power, his life is nearly taken.
Left shaken but alive, Vernice refuses to be silent. With the unwavering love of his wife, Cecy, the fierce strength of his daughter, Ava and the solidarity of community leader and youth organizer Liam Paterson, he turns personal pain into purpose. Together, they risk everything to challenge a system built on bias, corruption, and intimidation.
As the fight for justice grows, so does the danger. But the Coles won't back down. Because this is bigger than one stop. It's about every life the system tries to control.
The Truth Don't Lie is the gripping policial thriller about racial profiling, corruption and the power of one family to ignite a movement that can't be stopped.
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The Truth Don’t Lie — Book One
“What was meant to silence them became the thing that made them loud.”
From The Truth Don’t Lie
As Real as It Is Fiction
The man who wrote it has his own story. It starts where most stories end.
Twenty years in finance. Twenty years in addiction. A recovery date he can recite like a birthday — July 11, 2017 — and a first book written not to be published, but to survive. The thriller is fiction. The truth behind it isn’t.
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Three books. One reckoning.
01
The Truth Don't Lie
Available Now
02
The Truth Still Don't Lie
Coming
03
The Truth Don't Die
Coming
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Two stories. One movement.
Book One of the Trilogy
The Truth Don't Lie
One stop changed everything...But the truth changes everyone! A gripping policial thriller about racial profiling, corruption and the power of one family to ignite a movement that can't be stopped.
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A Novel by Lawrence D. Brown
Two for Five
"Two for Five" takes you on a gripping journey through the notorious streets of South Jamaica Queens and exposes you to the lives of three young thugs coming up in the drug game. As the money flows, so too does the drama and the cost of doing business on the merciless streets of Queens is paid for with blood and an increased body count. You smoke, you buy, you live, you die...
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Early Words
“A thriller with a heartbeat — and a family you'll fight for from the first page.”
— Advance praise — forthcoming
“The rare page-turner that understands the real battle starts after the sirens fade.”
— Advance praise — forthcoming
“Numbers don't lie. Neither does this story.”
— From the author's notebooks
“Ordinary people, refusing someone else's version of the truth.”
— From The Truth Don't Lie