The Good We Don’t Do

Captured by the Nazis, Mike Mills was forced to make a decision between his own life and the lives of the other GIs in Stalag 12-A. Twelve years after the war, his choice still haunts him.

Now a government lawyer, Mills is in Little Rock to help nine Black students integrate Central High. President Eisenhower has sent in the 101st Airborne to protect the students from segregationists. The city is about to explode. Hoping to prevent it, Mills seeks out Lou Clay, an ex-GI who was imprisoned with him in Stalag 12-A. But Clay is missing, and no one seems to care what’s happened to him—until his corpse is pulled from the river. He may have been lynched, and unless Mills can disprove it, the Black part of town will be torched. As he races to find Clay’s killers, Mills is forced to confront the truth he thought he buried at the end of the war.