Summary: In the summer of 1946, the newly elected county prosecutor of Hot Springs, Arkansas, hires Earl Swagger, a war veteran disturbed by dark memories of Iwo Jima and of his brutal father, to fight a war against the city's gangsters, led by an Englishman named Owney Maddox, who has a taste for brothels and casinos.
Notes:
School Library Journal, March 2001 Library Journal, May 2000 Booklist starred, May 2000 Pub Weekly, June 2000 Kirkus Starred, April 2000 New York Times, August 2000 Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult Follett Library Resources
ISBN:
068486360X
Accession Number:
99088530
Accession Number:
tas.23508
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