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A gangster war, three murders, a gun-toting paperboy, and the numbers racket punctuate the tragic story of two altar boys adrift in a world of poverty, crime and hopelessness.
Father Divine's Bikes, the first book of the Passaic River Trilogy, is a 2020 Book Excellence Award Finalist Book in a Series; Solo Medal Winner New Apple Literary Award for E-Book General Fiction; Finalist International Book Awards (American Book Fest) in Genre Fiction; and Finalist Best Book Awards (American Book Fest) in General Fiction.
It paints a gangster war, three murders, a gun-toting paperboy, and the numbers racket into a dark mosaic that exposes the underbelly of a decaying city that seduces two altar boys into a corrupt world from which there is little hope of escape. Th | |  | | Golden Ghetto: How the Americans and French Fell In and Out of Love
Considering the suspicions, jealousies, bigotry, and crass opportunism inherent whenever one foreign power occupies another, award-winning journalist Steve Bassett’s “Golden Ghetto: How the Americans and French Fell In and Out of Love During the Cold War” pieces together an improbable love affair that ended in betrayal by French President Charles de Gaulle.
It is a Cold War tale of birth, growth and death of a huge U.S. Air Force base as relived through the heretofore dormant memories and voices of both the occupier and the occupied. Tens of thousands of American GIs passed through Dèols-Châteauroux Air Station during the sixteen years that it was the largest U.S. Air Force supply base in Europe.
Bassett has woven a tapestry composed of hundreds of hours of interviews and long forgotten photos providing for the first time a unique blend of voices seldom if ever heard. French citizens describe what it was like to have foreign troops roam | |  | | Payback - Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge (Passaic River Trilogy)
Payback - Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge, the second book of the Passaic River Trilogy, is a drama so intense that it would be improbable anywhere but 1946 Newark.
Across the country millions were dealing with the loss of loved ones, and horrible memories were being buried for the greater good. But not in Newark. Two mutilated bodies were pulled from the putrid Passaic River, and the sawed-off arm of a third man was found neatly wrapped and tied at the city dump. The three victims were members of the German-American Bund, Hitler lovers who had to pay the price for supporting a murderous madman. Someone was sending a message that only revenge could clear the mind and free the soul. |
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Art and Beauty [crime]
by Bruce Price
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 PI novel set in Manhattan during the 1980s when art galleries and model agencies were the two most glamorous businesses in the world. Dangerously well written.
Read Chapter 1 here: https://www.lit4u.com/art-and-beauty-chapter-1/
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