Blood Brothers

Fantasy written in page-turner thriller style. Black geek and white wrongly convicted military bruiser discover that they're linked through family connections--connections that have already been deadly to many and threaten the geek's family. Turns out the legacy of slavery affects magic, too. I enjoyed it, though sometimes that was because I was amused by 1996 state of the art technology. There is a lot of gender role stuff (what it is to be a man, what it is to be a woman), though it was easy to read that as the characters' viewpoints rather than as the author explaining life.