Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, no one knows better than Titus that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. But a year to the day after Titus''s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student. The student is then fatally shot by Titus''s deputies. As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes, and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killer''s possible connections to a local church and the town''s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus tries to project confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town''s Confederate history. Charon is Titus''s home and his heart. But where faith and violence meet, there will be a reckoning.

Ike Randolph left jail fifteen years ago, with not so much as a speeding ticket since. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. Ike is devastated to learn his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Though he never fully accepted his son, Ike is broken by his death. Derek’s father Buddy Lee was as ashamed of Derek being gay as Derek was of his father’s criminal past. But Buddy Lee – with seedy contacts deep in the underworld – needs to know who killed his only child. Desperate to do better by them in death than they did in life, two hardened ex-cons must confront their own prejudices about their sons – and each other – as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.

Après Les Routes oubliées, la nouvelle sensation des lettres américaines est de retour ! Ike Randolph est noir. Buddy Lee Jenkins est blanc. En Virginie-Occidentale, cela revient à dire que tout les oppose. Ils ont pourtant été tous les deux pareillement lamentables en dénigrant avec la même violence l'homosexualité de leurs fils, maintenant mariés l'un à l'autre. Alors, quand Isiah et Derek sont assassinés, la douleur a un goût de culpabilité. Qui a tôt fait de se transformer en colère, une colère viscérale, qui réclame un exutoire. À travers un thriller palpitant superbement incarné par deux hommes en quête de rédemption, S. A. Cosby dresse un état des lieux sans concession des marges de l'Amérique. Unanimement acclamé par la presse à sa sortie, La Colère est en cours d'adaptation pour le cinéma par la Paramount.