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McBride’s prose is rollicking and unpredictable. The Elephant winds up at the Five Ends chasing answers to an inherited riddle Potts becomes smitten with Sister Gee during his attempts to find Sportcoat. In particular, an Irish cop named Potts and an Italian businessman known as “The Elephant” - men unwelcome at best, feared at the worst - find themselves drawn to the church again and again. Ostensibly, the church serves the housing project over time, it becomes clear that the church’s importance transcends its congregants. Much of the gossip, storytelling, plotting and detective work that follows the shooting takes place in or near the Five Ends Baptist Church. Cuffy “Sportcoat” Lambkin, recent widower and deacon of the Five Ends Baptist Church, is usually too intoxicated to recall his own actions thus, when he shoots Deems Clemens, who commandeers the Cause Houses flagpole for illicit purposes, Sportcoat later insists that, as Clemens’ former baseball coach, he just wanted to encourage the man to return to the game. “Deacon King Kong” is by turns cacophonous, slapstick, violent and meditative it is both frightening and tender, disillusioned and romantic. James McBride, who won a National Book Award in 2013 for “The Good Lord Bird,” sets his latest novel in South Brooklyn’s Causeway Housing Project, known as the Cause Houses, in 1969.