War in Italy, 1943-1945 by Richard Lamb

War in Italy, 1943-1945 by Richard Lamb

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War in Italy, 1943-1945 by Richard Lamb

BOTLEGING, BARNSTORMING and a Hard-Rock BONDOGLE. Los Angeles, 1934: Based on a true chapter of California history, Houdini Pie explores the depths to which a family, and a city, will sink when hard luck comes knocking and there's nothing left to lose. Young Hal Gates is a celebrated pitcher for an upstart rural ball club, and the son of a notorious booze smuggler who vanished at the end of Prohibition. At his lonely mother's urging, and with the desperate backing of the municipal powers-that-be, he teams up with a crackpot geologist to mine for a mythical Hopi treasure trove buried miles beneath the downtown streets. The deeper they tunnel the more Hal learns about loyalty, treachery, hunger and hope, and mostly--in ways he never would have imagined--about love.
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ISBN 13 9780312110932
ISBN 10 0312110936
Title War in Italy, 1943-1945
Author Richard Lamb
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Year published 1994-07-01
Number of pages 335
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.