Up Jumped the Devil (Abridged, Audio cassette, Abridged edition)

A reporter for the Baltimore Herald, Darryl Billups never wanted to be a hero. He's just a hardworking black journalist who always speaks his mind. That doesn't change the fact that he's one of the best newspapermen on the East Coast and his editors - and soon the whole city - know it. At first he ignores the voice mail message warning him about an impending wave of white supremacist violence - just another crackpot making crank phone calls. After all, Darryl has his own problems: a boss who's itching to fire him, a hot new lady love who just moved in...along with her little boy. But when bombs start to go off all over town and a noted liberal philanthropist is slain, Billups quickly becomes a believer. Warned that the headquarters of the NAACP is the next target, Darryl is off and running - chasing a deadly urban nightmare to its rotting, poisonous core. And with a city and his new "family" under siege, Darryl Billups is after justice...as well as the story of a lifetime. But it could cost him his life to get it.