Red Clay Hill

Marcus Turner, grew up an orphan in Atlanta, GA. No family, no friends, he didn’t even know his real name, and he didn’t care. He simply wanted to be left alone with the one thing that he did care about– his books. A curios boy stuck in a segregated Southern Christian orphanage where even the other black kids thought he was weird and called him Blue because he was so black. When Marcus left the orphanage for college, he embraced his darkness with the...
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Marcus Turner, grew up an orphan in Atlanta, GA. No family, no friends, he didn’t even know his real name, and he didn’t care. He simply wanted to be left alone with the one thing that he did care about– his books. A curios boy stuck in a segregated Southern Christian orphanage where even the other black kids thought he was weird and called him Blue because he was so black. When Marcus left the orphanage for college, he embraced his darkness with the pen-name–The Black-Black Man–and began lashing out at his tormentors. Black culture, Hip-Hop, Southern racism, preachers and Christianity were his favorite targets. Protected by Ivy-League walls, Marcus waged a one-man culture war. With the orphanage and the Black-Black Man behind him, Marcus returns to Atlanta with the hope of establishing himself as a philosophy professor at Emory. That hope comes crumbling down when a serial killer begins leaving bloody copies of Marcus’ essays on his victims. The Atlanta Police Department is convinced that the young professor is a modern Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Did Marcus return to Atlanta for revenge? The police’s belief is reinforced when a mega-church pastor is brutally murdered and the killer takes on the philosophical alias– Zarathustra, a figure who once declared war on religion by announcing, “God is dead!” As the body count grows, the killer promises Marcus that he will be the final victim but only after his budding career and his new love have been ruined. With his sanity pushed to the limit, Marcus’ only hope at clearing his name is to finally face his past and discover his true identity.