It's 1945. Ensign Sam Drake attends a party on his last night stationed in Hawaii and meets the woman of his dreams. But before the night is out, her best friend is dead in an upstairs room at the party. It appears to be suicide.The next day Sam starts his leave before receiving a new post. He returns to his home town of Detroit, and decides to check into a connection there between the dead woman and a radical group of black activists. Another death quickly follows and Sam finds himself on a cross-country adventure, haunted by dangerous characters everywhere he turns.
Chet Gordon Séria
Táto séria ponúka hlboký pohľad do remesla písania beletrie prostredníctvom zbierky zasvätených esejí. Autor, držiteľ štyroch cien Edgar, sa zaoberá rôznymi aspektami rozprávania, vývoja postáv a tvorivého procesu. Kolekcia slúži ako sprievodca pre začínajúcich spisovateľov aj ako zamyslenie nad nuansami vytvárania pútavých príbehov.
