It’s a corpo novel series written by a collective hired by HarperCollins. They’re owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, but I haven’t heard anything problematic with the series.

Americans went nuts after 9/11. It was weird how all of a sudden, it was ok to be openly racist. Up to then, I knew older people were racist, but were being shamed into keeping quiet and it was fading from younger generations, but 9/11 set all that back. They were right to be scared.

Police aren’t likely to kill you over there. Just harass you if you’re clubbing with their women.