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Tucker's People: A Novel of Power and Corruption
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781627550390
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 24 2013
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A hard-driving novel of organized crime, ambition, and the uneasy line between power and corruption in mid-century America.
In Tucker's People, Ira Wolfert examines the machinery of influence from the inside out. The novel traces the rise of a man whose authority rests not only on money but on loyalty, fear, and carefully cultivated alliances. As political interests, criminal enterprise, and personal ambition intertwine, Wolfert exposes the invisible networks that shape public life while operating beyond it.
Written with the directness and moral clarity characteristic of mid-twentieth-century crime fiction, the novel avoids melodrama in favor of systemic tension. The focus is not simply on individual wrongdoing but on the ecosystem that permits it-how institutions bend, how loyalties shift, and how power consolidates itself through both persuasion and pressure. The result is a tightly controlled narrative that reads as both thriller and social study, capturing an era when organized influence moved just beneath the surface of respectable society.
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