They came by boat from a starving land—and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains—seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastrophe—as flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire.
They came by boat from a starving land—and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains—seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastrophe—as flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire.
| ISBN-13: | 9780061748981 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date: | 03/17/2009 |
| Series: | City of Fire Trilogy Series , #2 |
| Sold by: | HARPERCOLLINS |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 688 |
| Sales rank: | 415,722 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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