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Beschreibung
"A sweeping tale that offers lessons from the not-so-distant past." -Kirkus Reviews
"Doll masterfully reveals what lies just below the surface of every human soul." -Judge Paul Bernal, official historian of the City of San Jose
"Cinematic in its scope, St. James Park is a movie waiting to be made." -Joe Talbot, director of The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

In a time when department stores ruled downtowns, a prominent store heir is kidnapped in 1933 under suspicious circumstances, and Hoover's Bureau of Investigation sends cynical agent Louis Cooper to investigate.
Cooper discovers that this crime is only a prelude to a dangerous play by the local power structure to expand control amid spiraling economic disruption, labor unrest, and anti-immigrant racism.
As Cooper unravels long-standing but shifting alliances of business leaders, city officials, and mobsters, he learns who is behind the kidnapping and why-but not in time to prevent a raging mob bent on vengeance.
"A sweeping tale that offers lessons from the not-so-distant past." -Kirkus Reviews
"Doll masterfully reveals what lies just below the surface of every human soul." -Judge Paul Bernal, official historian of the City of San Jose
"Cinematic in its scope, St. James Park is a movie waiting to be made." -Joe Talbot, director of The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

In a time when department stores ruled downtowns, a prominent store heir is kidnapped in 1933 under suspicious circumstances, and Hoover's Bureau of Investigation sends cynical agent Louis Cooper to investigate.
Cooper discovers that this crime is only a prelude to a dangerous play by the local power structure to expand control amid spiraling economic disruption, labor unrest, and anti-immigrant racism.
As Cooper unravels long-standing but shifting alliances of business leaders, city officials, and mobsters, he learns who is behind the kidnapping and why-but not in time to prevent a raging mob bent on vengeance.
Über den Autor
John Doll is a third-generation San Josean who listened to family confessions, rumors, hints, and denials of the crimes committed leading up to a fateful night in 1933 and the cover-up that followed. Having spent a career creating revitalization projects throughout the Bay Area, including restoration of a once premiere hotel in downtown San Jose, John Doll is now a recovering government bureaucrat, semiretired, living in San Francisco with his wife, Rachael.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9798888248072
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Doll, John
Hersteller: Koehler Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: John Doll
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2025
Gewicht: 0,544 kg
Artikel-ID: 133833282