{"product_id":"the-omission-of-billy-seldom-hardcover","title":"The Omission of Billy Seldom - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKavi Ocktiiv\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1892 in McHenry, Mississippi, December Williams is the youngest of eleven children in a family hardened by poverty and terror. The son of a sharecropper and maid, he grows up under the looming menace of white hoods and burning crosses, witnessing racial violence that forces his family to flee north to Memphis, TN.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the untimely death of his aunt, December inherits a juke joint while still barely a man. What begins as survival becomes education. Behind the music, liquor, and night life, he sees the machinery of Jim Crow up close: shakedowns, police brutality, extortion, and white men who profit from Black labor without consequence. Every dollar he earns is squeezed. Every success is taxed by fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut December refuses to be broken by violence. Rather than surrender to brutality; he chooses a far more dangerous path... one of psychological warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoticing the quiet infatuation white women have with him, he devises a plan-not to love them, not to save them, but to weaponize the one thing Southern white men value most: the white woman's purity myth. From the shadows, December builds a clandestine empire, positioning himself as the unseen architect while a white front man shields the operation. His rule is simple and ruthless... his women entertain only white men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is revenge through psychology, profit reclaimed through subversion, and power seized without firing a single shot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in early twentieth-century America, a Black man who manipulates the racial order, even invisibly, plays a deadly game. As December's underground empire grows, it draws the attention of the Irish mob, and the balance of power begins to shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world ruled by terror, taboo, and tyranny, December must decide: is he reclaiming dignity... or becoming the very thing he despises?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sweeping historical novel of ambition, race, power, and the dangerous cost of calculated revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 406\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.25 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377140457779,"sku":"9798994546703","price":50.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/u1g6wpkI3Z9798994546703.webp?v=1779314955","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-omission-of-billy-seldom-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}