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One man stands against the corrupt wartime maneuverings of the powerful Detroit military industrial machine in this second entry of a well-reviewed crime series
Minotaur Books
October 2006
Featuring: Pete Caudill
224 pages
ISBN: 0312340893
EAN: 9780312340896
Hardcover
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Spring of 1944: The city of Detroit is doing its best to recover from last summer's blistering race riots and get through the war. Pete Caudill, late of the Detroit detective squad, is passing the time sitting on the fire escape of a squalid rented room, consumed by the ghosts of his past. He is called into action when a woman he is distantly connected to is murdered, and her blood threatens to stain the reputation of the Lloyd family, scions of the all-powerful auto industry. As a desperate investigation unfolds and the war effort rages on, the tentacles of a menacing conspiracy reach deep into the soul of Detroit and threaten to squelch the heart of American patriotism beating within. It's up to Pete, using "whatever meager resources he can assemble, to save the Lloyd family from ruinβand perhaps in the process discover an unexpected second chance at his own life.
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