On Dec 4, 1969, an FBI sponsored police raid on Chicago Black Panther headquarters killed Chairman Fred Hampton. Was informant William O'Neal the black James Bond of the FBI, or the Judas of the Black Panther Party? Maverick Lawyer Sam Cohen is caught up in the intrigue that lasts three decades.

SYNOPSIS

This is a fictionalized story based on real events, which alleges that the FBI, on orders from Director J.Edgar Hoover, was directly involved in the deliberate death of Chicago Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, in a midnight machinegun raid on his apartment on December 4, 1969.

BLACK MESSIAH MURDERS is written to be produced in the style of film noir. After a nightmare dramatizing a brutal police raid on an apartment filled with young black men and women, maverick lawyer Sam Cohen goes to his Chicago office, three weeks before New Years Eve 2000. When beautiful Serena Wilson walks in and hires him to tell her about his involvement in cases following the raid that killed Hampton thirty years ago, Sam finds himself involved in mysterious action, threatened by unknown assailants. In action flashbacks we discover Sam as a young man is the Asst. US Attorney defending FBI informant William O'Neal and the FBI from charges of deliberately setting up the raid to murder Hampton. As he learns about the involvement of O'Neal, his FBI control agent Roy Mitchell, and the secret anti-black activities of J.Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO program, Sam must make a personal moral decision.

He learns that O'Neal was the FBI's informant inside the Chicago Black Panthers, their Chief of Security, and Hampton's bodyguard. When O'Neal's identity becomes known as a result of his involvement in a second case, the notorious Hit Squad murders involving Chicago Police Sgt. Stanley Robinson, Sam's sense of professional ethics and honesty is further challenged. He discovers that Robinson was O'Neal's partner in undercover work, and was involved with him in the assassination of a troublesome drug dealer. He also learns that Robinson found something that would incriminate the agents of Hoover's secret spy program, and that he was set up and convicted to shut him up about that.

As Sam reveals these things to Serena, it becomes apparent that someone in the present is pursuing her, and they begin to put the pressure on Sam and his secretary Val, who is threatened with violence. When Serena confesses that she is O'Neal's secret daughter, and that her mother was killed because she possessed the evidence that Robinson had found, the moral struggle which Sam has been facing since the days of those trials is brought to the present. He must make the right move to get himself, Serena, and Val off the hook, and to satisfy all the mysterious antagonists.