These Restless Hills - Couverture souple

Penrod, Joshua

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798888193327

Editeur : Catamount Press, 2025

Synopsis

At the height of the industrial Gilded Age, amidst the blazing fires of the steel mill and black depths of the coal mine, the chase is on. Thomas Houghton, an inspector and enforcer for the feared and hated Pennsylvania Coal and Iron Police, pursues an elusive and legendary labor organizer and insurrectionist from coal town to steel mill amidst the backdrop of surging social tides in the late 1800s. From the glamorous hotels of the rich to the creaking shantytowns of the poor immigrants, Houghton threads his way through an arena of danger, violence, and seething unrest while also doing battle with his own ghosts. Houghton, a man haunted by his own brutality and his past as a Civil War combat veteran, driven by hatred for his own actions and contempt for his rich superiors, uses his own relentless determination to force his way through a churning, chaotic, and dangerous industrial world.

As Houghton inches closer to his quarry in May 1889, the rains pour down the steep hillsides as the city prepares for a Decoration Day parade and celebrations. Houghton chases the elusive Istvan Magursky from the thundering noise and hellish heat of the mills to the crowded confines of the mines, to the underworld of bare-knuckle brawling to the threat of back-alley knife fights in the simmering underground of a steel-making boomtown. Forces of rich and poor collide with unrelenting nature as the stakes escalate…along with the water running in the streets of downtown.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Josh is a native and resident of western Pennsylvania, which also supplies much of the setting of his writing. In addition to his writing, he is currently an executive for a global trade association in the biomedical sector and an award-winning adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore and Southern New Hampshire University, teaching courses in business and public administration. He holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, in addition to law and graduate degrees from other institutions, and completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Florida. He has previously published books on topics of industrial history (Johnstown Industry and Johnstown Waters) and neuroscience's role in marketing research (Ethics and Biopower in Neuromarketing). He has also been an essay contributor to the Northern Appalachia Review and the Loyalhanna Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Catamount Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888193327
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 189
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