Five O'Clock Lightning: A Novel About Baseball, Politics, and Murder
A Novel About Baseball, Politics, and Murder
Mystery & Suspense, Hard-Boiled, Thrillers, Fiction & Literature
| Author: | William L. DeAndrea | ISBN: | 9781453290279 |
| Publisher: | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | Publication: | December 18, 2012 |
| Imprint: | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road | Language: | English |
| Author: | William L. DeAndrea |
| ISBN: | 9781453290279 |
| Publisher: | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road |
| Publication: | December 18, 2012 |
| Imprint: | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road |
| Language: | English |
A onetime baseball catcher confronts the murder of a McCarthyist politician at Yankee Stadium
In 1953 America, McCarthyism is everywhere. Congressman Rex Harwood Simmons is among the leaders who single-mindedly hunt down suspected Communists; he even claims that Communism has infiltrated America’s favorite pastime. But while watching a Yankee game one afternoon, he becomes a target. As the crowd cheers for a homerun, Simmons is shot dead in his seat.
The task of solving the crime falls to onetime ballplayer and Korean War veteran Russ Garrett, who collaborates with “Vicious Aloysius” Murphy, a Bronx homicide detective. The investigation won’t be easy, since there are plenty of people with a motive to plug Simmons. Several clues point to a blacklisted intellectual—but he was driven to suicide years ago. And as Garrett hunts for the killer, a new conspiracy comes to light: a plot to murder Yankee star Mickey Mantle.
A onetime baseball catcher confronts the murder of a McCarthyist politician at Yankee Stadium
In 1953 America, McCarthyism is everywhere. Congressman Rex Harwood Simmons is among the leaders who single-mindedly hunt down suspected Communists; he even claims that Communism has infiltrated America’s favorite pastime. But while watching a Yankee game one afternoon, he becomes a target. As the crowd cheers for a homerun, Simmons is shot dead in his seat.
The task of solving the crime falls to onetime ballplayer and Korean War veteran Russ Garrett, who collaborates with “Vicious Aloysius” Murphy, a Bronx homicide detective. The investigation won’t be easy, since there are plenty of people with a motive to plug Simmons. Several clues point to a blacklisted intellectual—but he was driven to suicide years ago. And as Garrett hunts for the killer, a new conspiracy comes to light: a plot to murder Yankee star Mickey Mantle.
