Black Cordite, White Snow
Book description
Minnesota's winter is freezing cold, but its market for guns has never been hotter.
February 1922 - Prohibition has reached a fever pitch, transforming lowly bootleggers and gangsters into wealthy businessmen beyond sanction. The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, known to the criminal underworld as Crooks' Haven, has a rule…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Black Cordite, White Snow as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Every so often, some brilliant song, painting, or person comes along to open my eyes to new possibilities. In this case, it was a novel.
First, the prose is good enough that I found myself reading merely for the pleasure of watching it scroll past, of imagining Granzow’s detailed and evocative descriptions of people and places. His vocabulary is nothing short of spectacular! I particularly enjoyed the dialogue.
Then he hits you with the plot, portraying realistically tense situations that unfold among nuanced characters, but with a clear dividing line between good and evil. Boy was I excited to come…