Dimensions
155 x 234 x 30mm
A Novel.
May 31, 1883, 3:55pm. Twenty thousand men, women, and children, their faces shining in the late afternoon sun, are strolling to see the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Brooklyn Bridge is just a week old, its promenade a magnet for the teeming masses of Manhattan and Brooklyn. An engineering marvel of transcendent beauty, the bridge is simply awe-inspiring.
In precisely five minutes, it will fall.
Seven desperate men, former Confederate soldiers turned saboteurs, have laboured for years to destroy the bridge. A symbol of hated Yankee supremacy, the bridge is the creation of chief engineer Washington Roebling. They have stalked him down through the years, with hatred born of bitter loss. It is with his bridge, his life's work, that he will pay the price.
Sergeant Detective Tom Braddock is one step behind the conspirators. With the help of an eager roundsman, new to the force, he has slowly drawn closer to the unthinkable truth, a truth that none can accept. Braddock's adversaries are many. Enemies within the police department seek to draw him deeper into a cesspool of corruption from which there seems no escape.
It's a battle he is in real danger of losing, for his hands, too, are far from clean. If the bridge is to be saved, Braddock must prevail against the enemy within. It is the love of Mary, the captivating madam of a midtown brothel, that helps him find the way.
Their fates are bound together, as surely as they are bound to the bridge. But it is Mike, a boy of the tenements, who literally holds the key to all their futures in this riveting historical thriller that includes fascinating details of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
