Plan B (novel)

Plan B is an unfinished novel by Chester Himes (1909–1984), begun in 1967 or 1968,[1] that was completed from his notes by Michel Fabre and Robert E.

[2] It was published posthumously in America in 1993 by the University Press of Mississippi, edited and with an Introduction by Fabre and Skinner, as the final volume in the Harlem Detective series of novels by Himes.

The story is even darker and more nihilistic than the preceding volumes in the cycle, culminating in a violent revolutionary movement in the streets of America.

The story hinges on the efforts of community leader Tomsson Black to stir up racial tension in Harlem in order to force a radical change in race relations.

[3] In an interview, Himes once noted that he had wanted to "depict the violence that is necessary so that the white community will also give it a little thought, because you know, they're going around playing these games.