Geoffrey Douglas

Gebundenes Buch

Love in a Dark Place

Beschreibung

A Testament to the Power of Love and Memory October 2017, north of Boston. The body of a 60-year-old drug addict and former prostitute is pulled from the Shawsheen River. The only person questioned is a former lover from decades before, now an aging English professor at a nearby college. The death is ruled accidental. August 1984, Atlantic City. Ten casinos are taking in $5 million a day; the Bruno crime family, following a deadly mob war, is in control of the city's rackets: loan-sharking, protection, fight-fixing, high-end prostitution. Among its most prized assets is a 28-year-old, $1,000-a-night escort named Sarah--beautiful and spirited, but deeply guarded, tethered to her mob bosses by an unknowable secret. Harry Hopper, a local news reporter known for his deep digs into the resort's darkest corners, comes to know her and is soon obsessed with the shadows she casts, then with Sarah herself. The two become lovers. But the secrets don't yield. And the dangers are too great. In the spring of 1987, Sarah disappears. For Harry, the memories live on as a torment. There are years of drifting and drinking, until finally he lands at that college outside Boston. More years pass. One day an email arrives in his inbox. Sarah needs help. So begins a second chapter. But even now there are secrets, and likely no good ending--though only one of them seems to know it.

Autor

Geoffrey Douglas is the author of five nonfiction books, all widely reviewed. One of them, The Game of Their Lives, was adapted for a 2005 movie of the same name. He has also worked as a reporter, columnist, editor and publisher, and is the author of many magazine pieces. For several years through the 1980s, he was editor of an investigative weekly in Atlantic City, an experience that provided much of the material for Love in a Dark Place, his first work of fiction. He lives today in New Hampshire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenleaf Book Group Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9798886453300
• Artikelnr.: 72702616