Plan B

About “Plan B”

Plan B is an unfinished novel by Chester Himes, written in the late 1960s. It was completed from his notes by Michel Fabre and Robert E. Skinner and published in 1993 by the University Press of Mississippi. The book is the last in Himes' Harlem Detective series. The story is darker and more nihilistic than previous works, ending with a violent revolutionary movement in America. A review in The Washington Post called the novel an honest and uncompromising look at race and race relations, noting its continued relevance. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)