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The Bootlegger of Illinois

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Language
English
Publishers
Independently published (4 Mar. 2024)
Weight
0.4 KG
Publication Date
04/03/2024
Pages
292 pages
ISBN-13
9798882511592
Dimensions
15.24 x 1.68 x 22.86 cm
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9798882511592
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Keith Lawson (Author)
Keith Lawson (born 1950 in Oxford) was Trackside Photographer for the local Speedway team - known as Oxford Rebels (1972-1975) then as Oxford Cheetahs (revising a previous nickname).He previously wrote Guides to NVQs in Management while working in education but, since retiring, he looked back at his collection of photos and decided to create retrospective yearbooks of speedway. His photographs of speedway in the 70s are much used across social media and picked up by the press on occasions when a story of a rider is in the news. He is a contributor to Wikipedia on biographies.Loves historical fiction (Hilary Mantel, S.J. Parris, Bernard Cornwell, Harry Sidebottom, C.J. Sansom) as well as non-fiction (Tom Holland, Mary Beard, Richard Dawkins) and would love to collaborate as photographer on sites such as Pompeii. Favourite modern crime writers are Adrian McKinty, Steve Cavanagh, Don Winslow, Lou Berney, Dennis Lehane, Val McDermid and Jo Nesbo.Writing his first fiction, with e-novella "Cat-As In Burglar" and has "The Bootlegger" in development - a tale of America's Prohibition era and gangsters.Read more about this authorRead less about this author
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Chicago is a city already deep in corruption. Gangs of Irish and Italians vie for control and when the Volstead Act is passed in 1920, new opportunities for criminal enterprises are seized.

Sean O’Leary arrived in Chicago several years earlier, starting with his journey from poor immigrant rising to be a mob boss. Successful at first, he is hit by hijacking and rivalry and needs a more secure source of booze for his speakeasy and bars.

Also in Illinois, in a small town, having gone through the Great War and returning home a war hero, young Jesse Hakerman has to face running the family farm, in debt to the bank. Naively, he sees bootlegging as a short-term fix to relieve him of money worries and to secure the farm from foreclosure.

His troubles begin when O'Leary learns of a potential source of liquor on his doorstep. When their worlds meet, violence is unleashed.

Jesse has to pushback against the mobsters and bloodshed in his neighbourhood has him travelling to the City to deal with the mob boss to protect his friends. The story of two men with different ideals and purposes but both strong and courageous.

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