ISBN:
9780684011851
Release Date:
01 Jun 2000
Average rating:
(read by 1 members)
Categories:
Historical fiction
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Adventure / thriller
Earl Swagger is tough as hell. But even tough guys have their secrets. Haunted by the brutal campaigns of the Pacific, plagued by the memory of his abusive father, and apprehensive about his own impending parenthood, Earl is a courageous lawman of absolute integrity -- and overwhelming melancholy. Now he's about to face his biggest, bloodiest challenge yet.
It is the summer of 1946, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good. Nowhere is this more true than in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the reigning capital of corruption. When the district attorney vows to bring down the mob, Earl is recruited to run the show. As casino raids erupt into nerve-shattering combat amid screaming prostitutes and fleeing johns, the body count mounts -- along with the suspense. Can Earl, caught between his duty as a lawman and the emerging truth about his own father, survive another war with his body and soul intact?
Packed with page-turning action, sex, sin, and crime, Hot Springs is at once a relentlessly violent and deeply touching story. It is Stephen Hunter's most ambitious novel since Dirty White Boys.
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