Craig Holden

The Jazz Bird (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An exquisitely written novel of love and betrayal, of money and power, set at the apex of that time of glitz and innocence known as the Jazz Age

CINCINNATI, 1927...

Lawyer George Remus became the country's biggest bootlegger, grossing over $80 million until his arrest. Upon his release from prison, he learns that his beautiful wife, Imogene, has left him and that his bank accounts are empty. On the morning of their divorce, he runs her car off the road in the middle of rush hour in Eden Park and shoots her to death.

Shocked and fascinated by this horrible crime, the country gears up for a sensational trial pitting the man known as "the king of the bootleggers" against Chief Prosecutor Charlie Taft, the youngest son of the former president. The trial is a national spectacle, a lens focused on the fabulous rise and fall of the Remus empire and the tragic love story within it, and an attempt to answer some tantalizing questions: What actually happened to the fortune? What are the motives of the federal agent who brought Remus down? What complex emotions and desires, leading ultimately to the ruin of three men, really lie within the heart of the woman known as the Jazz Bird?

Based on a true story, The Jazz Bird is at once a love story, a crime novel, and the tale of the courtroom battle between two powerful men whose respective futures hang in the balance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743217576
• Artikelnr.: 37835007

Autorenporträt

Craig Holden is the author of four previous novels: The Jazz Bird, The River Sorrow, The Last Sanctuary, and Four Corners of Night. He lives in Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Prologue: Out of Eden
DISCOVERY
Black for Mourning
The Swimmer
Teardrops
A Fine Bordeaux
A Lawyer's Lawyer
Motions
The Maker
OPENING ARGUMENTS
Skirmishes
Groundwork
A Deal
Partners
Autumns
Hand to Hand
The Jazz Bird Sings
Open
PROSECUTION
Scenes from a Killing
A Dry Heat
A Vision of a Lady
Conspiracy
The Whiskey Monopoly
The Untouchables
The End of Something
Laura
DEFENSE
A Portrait of Madness
A Last and Only Hope
Homecoming
Conners's Story
The Dead
Killers
A Plan
Marcus's Story
VERDICT
Dogs
Rebuttals
Watching Harry
Dawn
Eden Park
The Night
The Jury
Epilogue: The Stone Room
Acknowledgments, Notes, and References