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The Last Bayman

The Last Bayman

Doug Robinson

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2020
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Ficción histórica
ISBN:
9781716646997
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Local Long Island boatbuilder, Jake Chichester, longs for the life of a Great South Bayman like his deceased father. In Prohibition jaded 1925, he joins the rum-runners and crosses paths with an ambitious Coast Guard chief petty officer. Their escalating cat-and-mouse game ends in a deadly Fourth of July confrontation out on the bay.

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