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The Bear and the High-speed World: Garcias
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Series: The Garcia's, Book 10
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ISBN13: 9798198897519
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A sweeping saga of violence, ambition, and redemption in Prohibition-era America In the glittering chaos of 1920s America, where bootleggers reign as kings and violence is currency, the ghosts of the Murder Consortium refuse to stay buried.
Mary Smith and Jack Kelly are celebrated heroes, lauded in newspapers for stopping a brutal bank robbery in Culver City. But beneath their respectable façade lies a blood-soaked truth: they are Violet Nightshade and Paddy McCloud, former assassins for the legendary Murder Consortium, an organization of contract killers that once controlled the underworld's darkest corners.
Mary Smith and Jack Kelly are celebrated heroes, lauded in newspapers for stopping a brutal bank robbery in Culver City. But beneath their respectable façade lies a blood-soaked truth: they are Violet Nightshade and Paddy McCloud, former assassins for the legendary Murder Consortium, an organization of contract killers that once controlled the underworld's darkest corners.
As Mary attempts to forge a new life and train her son John Chin in the deadly arts that kept her alive, the tentacles of organized crime reach across continents. John Garcia, patriarch, strategist, and architect of a criminal empire, orchestrates smuggling operations that ferry desperate men fleeing Mussolini's purges while navigating treacherous alliances with Meyer Lansky, Joe Masseria, and Charlie Luciano. His daughter Isabella evolves from calculating strategist to woman of unexpected depth, balancing political awakening, forbidden romance, and lethal competence in a world that underestimates her at its peril.
From the docks of Atlantic City to the speakeasies of Chicago, from the blood-stained streets of Sicily to the aviation revolution transforming America, this sprawling epic chronicles interconnected lives shaped by violence and survival. FBI surveillance tightens. Rival gangsters fall in bloody ambushes. Historic moments, Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, the first television transmission, Babe Ruth's legendary home runs, collide with personal reckonings as characters confront the impossible question: can killers become heroes, or does blood always call for blood?
From the docks of Atlantic City to the speakeasies of Chicago, from the blood-stained streets of Sicily to the aviation revolution transforming America, this sprawling epic chronicles interconnected lives shaped by violence and survival. FBI surveillance tightens. Rival gangsters fall in bloody ambushes. Historic moments, Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, the first television transmission, Babe Ruth's legendary home runs, collide with personal reckonings as characters confront the impossible question: can killers become heroes, or does blood always call for blood?
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