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Five O'Clock Lightning
William L. DeAndrea
其他書名
A Novel About Baseball, Politics, and Murder
出版Open Road Media, 2012-12-18
主題Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-BoiledFiction / SportsFiction / Thrillers / Historical
ISBN14532902739781453290279
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=h3IkMR5JKTcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋DIVA onetime baseball catcher confronts the murder of a McCarthyist politician at Yankee Stadium/divDIV
In 1953 America, McCarthyism is everywhere. Congressman Rex Harwood Simmons is among the leaders who single-mindedly hunt down suspected Communists; he even claims that Communism has infiltrated America’s favorite pastime. But while watching a Yankee game one afternoon, he becomes a target. As the crowd cheers for a homerun, Simmons is shot dead in his seat.          /divDIV /divDIVThe task of solving the crime falls to onetime ballplayer and Korean War veteran Russ Garrett, who collaborates with “Vicious Aloysius” Murphy, a Bronx homicide detective. The investigation won’t be easy, since there are plenty of people with a motive to plug Simmons. Several clues point to a blacklisted intellectual—but he was driven to suicide years ago. And as Garrett hunts for the killer, a new conspiracy comes to light: a plot to murder Yankee star Mickey Mantle./div