The City

About the Book

Black Mike is a high school basketball star in Detroit whose life is turned upside down. After graduating, Black Mike attends a party that changes the rest of his plans for the summer and maybe his life. He is now struggling to find his way back to doing right in a city where doing right seems like the wrong thing to do. But throughout all the wrong he has seen and done in a matter of weeks, he doesn’t know if he can go back to doing right for the safety of himself and his family and friends.

About the Author

Michael J VanHorn III was born on May 10, 1997 in Irvine, California. He grew up in Detroit, Michigan and was raised by Toinett M, Bolden a single mother who took care of him and five of his siblings. Michael is the second oldest of six. At the end of Michael’s fifth grade year he moved to Virginia with his father who is Military man. He would learn a lot of important life values and lessons from his father Michael J, VanHorn Jr. He started to get more into sports after staying with his father, but he still had a passion to be a writer. At a young age he took on the role of being a role model for his younger siblings by graduating from high school with honors from Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, Virginia. He also attended Virginia State University in the fall of 2015.