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The Golden Gate

A Novel

Pocket
Engelsk
The Golden Gate
The Golden Gate
  • Forfatter: Amy Chua
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 384
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781250322913
  • Utgivelsesår: 2023
  • Bidragsyter: Chua, Amy
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Amy Chua''s debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.

In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan¿s investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all of San Francisco. Some say she haunts the Claremont still.

The many threads of the case keep leading Sullivan back to the three remaining