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The Anarchist
On a stifling afternoon in September 1901, a young anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, waits in line to meet President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Czolgosz’s right hand is wrapped in a handkerchief and held across his chest as though it were in a sling. But the handkerchief conceals a .32-caliber revolver. When the president greets him, Czolgosz fires two shots. The nation quickly plummets into fear and anger. A week later, a rioting mob attempts to lynch McKinley’s assassin, and across the country, political dissidents such as the notorious Emma Goldman are arrested. Driven by a sense of duty and his love for a beautiful Russian prostitute, Czolgosz’s confidant, Moses Hyde, infiltrates an anarchist group as it sets in motion a deadly scheme designed to push the country into a state of terror. The Anarchist brilliantly renders a haunting and belligerent twentieth-century landscape teeming with corrupt politicians, dissidents, and immigrants eager for a fresh start in an America where every allegiance is questioned, and every hope and aspiration comes at a price.
Wolf's Mouth
In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and shipped to a POW camp in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where the senior POW, the ruthless Kommandant Vogel, demands that all prisoners adhere to his Nazi dictates. His life threatened, Verdi escapes from the camp and meets up with an American woman, Chiara Frangiapani, who helps him elude capture as they flee to the Lower Peninsula. By 1956 they have become Frank and Claire Green, a young married couple building a new life in postwar Detroit. When INS agent James Giannopoulos tracks them down, Frank learns that Vogel is executing men like Frank for their wartime transgressions. As a series of brutal murders rivets Detroit, Frank is caught between American justice and Nazi vengeance. InWolf 's Mouth,the recollections of Francesco Verdi/Frank Green give voice to the hopes, fears, and hard choices of a survivor as he strives to escape the ghosts of history.
Wolf's mouth: a novel
In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and shipped to a POW camp in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where the senior POW, the ruthless Kommandant Vogel, demands that all prisoners adhere to his Nazi dictates. His life threatened, Verdi escapes from the camp and meets up with an American woman, Chiara Frangiapani, who helps him elude capture as they flee to the Lower Peninsula. By 1956 they have become Frank and Claire Green, a young married couple building a new life in postwar Detroit. When INS agent James Giannopoulos tracks them down, Frank learns that Vogel is executing men like Frank for their wartime transgressions. As a series of brutal murders rivets Detroit, Frank is caught between American justice and Nazi vengeance. In Wolf 's Mouth, the recollections of Francesco Verdi/Frank Green give voice to the hopes, fears, and hard choices of a survivor as he strives to escape the ghosts of history.
Wolf's Mouth
In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and shipped to a POW camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where the senior POW, the ruthless Kommandant Vogel, demands that all prisoners adhere to his Nazi dictates. His life threatened, Verdi escapes from the camp and meets up with an American woman, Chiara Frangiapani, who helps him elude capture as they flee to the Lower Peninsula. By 1956 they have become Frank and Claire Green, a young married couple building a new life in postwar Detroit. When INS agent James Giannopoulos tracks them down, Frank learns that Vogel is executing men like Frank for their wartime transgressions. As a series of brutal murders rivets Detroit, Frank is caught between American justice and Nazi vengeance. In Wolf ’s Mouth, the recollections of Francesco Verdi/Frank Green give voice to the hopes, fears, and hard choices of a survivor as he strives to escape the ghosts of history.
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ELABORATE ARRANGEMENTS HAD been made for the Sunday-morning procession that would take the president’s body to city hall. Having spent so much time administering to the president in life, Dr. Rixey wanted little to do with these preparations. His primary concern now was Mrs. McKinley, and he kept close to her throughout the morning. As always, she exhibited stiff resolve under pressure, and she was also fanatically possessive. She was adamant that her husband’s body be returned to the Milburn house from city hall no later than six Sunday evening. Before the procession there was a religious ceremony in the
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DR. RIXEY REMAINED in Canton to care for Mrs. McKinley until mid-October. The night he had been packing for the trip back to Washington, D.C., he was summoned by a young policeman, who drove him in a carriage out to the cemetery. It was after eight o’clock but there were a number of lanterns glowing on the knoll where the president had been buried. Two policemen came down to the carriage to greet him. The taller of them was a plainclothesman, who said, “Dr. Rixey, I’m Captain Biddle, and this is Private Deprend. Apparently, someone made an attack on President
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HYDE SAW THEM for just a moment: two horses, the bay ridden by a girl, the sorrel by a boy. The horses were sauntering down the main street in Auburn, and Hyde caught a glimpse of them as they turned a corner two blocks to the east and disappeared behind Zemmin’s Feed Grain Store. It was evening, last light of day, and warm for so late in September. Hyde had been resting in his room on the second floor of the boardinghouse operated by Mrs. Czyznski. When he saw the horses from the window, he left his room and rushed
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MRS. MCKINLEY WAS loath to even consider an autopsy, but after Rixey and Cortelyou discussed the matter with her at length she accepted a compromise: the doctors could examine the heart, lungs, and intestinal organs, but she was adamant that nothing be removed from the body other than small tissue samples necessary for microscopic study. The autopsy began at noon on Saturday, conducted by the Erie County coroner, James Wilson, and Dr. Harvey Gaylord and Dr. Herman Matzinger of the New York State Pathological Laboratory. Present were Dr. Rixey and many of the other physicians who had been involved in