Partying in Kavos during the pandemic.

Antoine Yates spent three years living in New York City public housing with a 450-pound Siberian tiger named Ming.

He was a Georgetown-educated Native-American lawyer who’d left behind a career in D.C. to advocate on behalf of poor and minority populations in rural North Carolina. At the time of his 1988 murder, he was investigating ties between police and the local cocaine trade.

The author spent nearly 30 years looking into what really happened.