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Poisoned Pen Press
August 2014
On Sale: August 5, 2014
250 pages
ISBN: 1464202869
EAN: 9781464202865
Kindle: B00MG2TUV0
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Mystery Historical
DURING THE SUMMER OF 1936, destitute farmers from the Dust Bowl swarm
into California, and an old friend brings police detective Tom Hickey a
manuscript, a clue to the mystery of his father Charlie’s longago disappearance.
Tom chooses to risk losing his job and family to follow this lead. Even his oldest
friend and mentor, retired cop Leo Weiss, opposes Tom’s decision. Why so
passionately? Tom lures the novelist B. Traven to a meeting on Catalina and
accuses him of manuscript theft and homicide. Traven replies that the
Sundance Kid, having escaped from his reputed death in Bolivia, killed Charlie.
Tom crosses the desert to Tucson, tracking the person or ghost of the
legendary outlaw. He meets a young Dust Bowl refugee intent on avenging the
enslavement of his sister by an L.A. cop on temporary border duty in Yuma. Tom
frees the sister, delivers the boy’s revenge, and becomes a fugitive, wanted for
felony assault by the L.A.P.D., his now-former employer. What he learns in
Tucson sends Tom up against powerful newspaper baron William Randolph
Hearst. He hopes to enlist Leo, but instead Leo offers evidence that Tom’s
father was a criminal. For Tom and his sister, both victims of Charlie’s wife, their
crazy mother, what now? This is the final chapter in the Hickey saga that ranges
across the 1900s.
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