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A Novel of the Roaring Twenties
Berkley
October 2013
On Sale: November 5, 2013
Featuring: Vera Abramowitz
384 pages
ISBN: 0451419200
EAN: 9780451419200
Kindle: B00BDQ3A7U
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America in the 1920s was a country alive with the wild fun of jazz, speakeasies and a new kind of womanβthe flapper. Vera Abramowitz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind, and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dreamed of. Bobbing her hair and showing her knees, the lipsticked beauty dazzles, doing the Charleston in nightclubs and earning the nickname "Dollface." As the ultimate flapper, Vera captures the attention of two high rollers, a handsome nightclub owner and a sexy gambler. On their arms, she gains entree into a world filled with bootlegged bourbon, wailing jazz and money to burn. She thinks her biggest problem is choosing between them, until the truth comes out. Her two lovers are really mobsters from rival gangs during Chicago's infamous Beer Wars, a battle Al Capone refuses to lose. The heady life she's living is an illusion resting on a bedrock of crime and violence unlike anything the country has ever seen before. When the good times come to an end, Vera becomes entangled in everything from bootlegging to murder. And as men from both gangs fall around her, Vera must put together the pieces of her shattered life, as Chicago hurtles towards one of the most infamous days in its history, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. "Rosen's Chicago gangsters are vividly rendered, and the gun molls stir up at least as much trouble as their infamous men."βSara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants
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