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The Chicago Connection

The Chicago Connection

The Chicago Connection

John Swift

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2007
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781430314219
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A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he tries to recapture his dreams with a feisty former classmate, she says first quit the mob. He discovers that one doesn’t just quit the mob and live to tell about it; he must find another way out.

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