Drake
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English
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Morris Brown, bail bondsman from Champaign, Illinois, stumbles into his extraordinary life in the 1950's. His journey parallels the events of the first 60 years of the twentieth century. His showmanship and persistence at tracking down bond jumpers make his story compelling. He spends years perfecting the art of catching the allusive jumpers.
Morris Brown connects with movie stars, the mob, and ordinary folks in need of help getting out of jail....
Author
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English
Description
On a June night in 1953, on the northside of Chicago, Eugene Janik was shot and killed. The newspaper and judge said it was a robbery gone wrong and the homeowner was within his rights to shoot the intruder. But is that the whole-or even the real-story?
In 1953, as the crime unfolds, two small children are staying at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, where their father took them to live after their mother's mysterious disappearance. Forty-three years later,...