Edited by anniekins at 10-03-2023 05:04
"While New York City sizzles beneath a blanket of earlysummer humidity, the Karp family is happily taking refuge in their renovatedfarmhouse on Long Island's north shore. Karp's battles against the City'scorrupt politicans are never-ending. His wife, Marlene, is training guard dogson their picturesque acreage; Lucy is enjoying her summer break from BostonCollege and playing the part of the dutiful daughter, assisting with therunning of the business and tending to her rambunctious twin brothers."The tide quickly changes, however, when Marlene befriends her beachsideneighbor, Rose Wickham-Heeney, a northeastern aristocrat turned wife of WestVirginia coal mine union leader Ralph "Red" Heeney. Soon after thefun-filled weeks of family barbecues and lazy afternoons with the Heeneys, theKarps discover that Rose, Red, and their daughter Lizzie, have been brutally murderedback home in McCullensburg. Irresistible force meets immovable object when theWest Virginia governor appoints Karp as special prosecutor to bring justice tothe corrupt town, its union chieftan, and his band of merry thugs. Marlenejoins Karp as he searches for the killers and works to save his own family froman evil that runs as deep as the mines that fuel it.
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