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World, Chase Me Down

World, Chase Me Down

Hilleman, Andrew

Paperback

WesternsHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0143111477
ISBN13: 9780143111474
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jan 24 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Winner of the 2018 Nebraska Book Award for Fiction

A rousing, suspenseful debut novel--True Grit meets Catch Me If You Can--based on the forgotten true story of a Robin Hood of the American frontier who pulls off the first successful kidnapping for ransom in U.S. history

A kidnapper with a social-justice mission (Time), Pat Crowe was once the most wanted man in America. World, Chase Me Down resurrects him, telling the electrifying story of the first great crime of the last century: how in 1900 the out-of-work former butcher kidnapped the teenage son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon for a ransom of $25,000 in gold, and then burgled, safe-cracked, and bond-jumped his way across the country and beyond, inciting a manhunt that was dubbed the thrill of the nation and a showdown in the court of public opinion between the haves and have-nots--all the while plotting a return to the woman he never stopped loving. As if channeling Mark Twain and Charles Portis, Andrew Hilleman has given us a character who is bawdy and soulful, grizzled, salty, and hard-drinking, and with a voice as unforgettable as that of Lucy Marsden in Alan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All--an antihero you can't help rooting for.

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