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Alafair Tucker #8
Poisoned Pen Press
November 2015
On Sale: November 3, 2015
ISBN: 1464204683 EAN: 9781464204685 Kindle: B016NFRUOY Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Historical
The U.S. has finally entered the First World War and
scheduled the first draft lottery. No one in Boynton,
Oklahoma, is unaffected by the clash between rabid pro-war,
anti-immigrant "patriots" and anti-conscription socialists,
who are threatening an uprising rather than submit to the
draft. Alafair Tucker is caught in the middle when her
brother, a union organizer for the Industrial Workers of the
World, pays her a visit. Rob Gunn is fresh out of an internment camp for participants
in an Arizona miners’ strike. He assures Alafair that he's
only come to visit family, but she's not so sure. More
unsettling, Alafair's eldest son enlists, and a group
calling itself the “Knights of Liberty” vandalizes the farm
of Alafair’s German-born son-in-law. Alafair’s younger son,
16-year-old Charlie, is wildly patriotic and horrified by
his socialist uncle. With his father's permission Charlie
takes a part-time war job at the Francis Vitric Brick
Company. Soon several suspicious machine breakdowns delay
production, and a couple of shift supervisors are murdered. Everyone in town suspects sabotage, some blaming German
spies, others blaming the unionists and socialists. But
Charlie Tucker is sure he knows who the culprit is and comes
up with a plan to catch him red-handed. And then there is
old Nick—a mysterious guy in a bowler hat who's been hanging
around town.
Alafair Tucker
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