![]() ![]() "In delicious, decadent prose, Denene Millner does what few authors can-compose a sprawling multigenerational tale that is necessary American reading. Will Babe succeed? Will Rosie continue to support her husband? Are the Feds on to his make-or-break scheme? Flipping Boxcars is Cedric "The Entertainer" at his most engaging best-a charming, fast-paced novel that pays homage to his beloved grandfather and a generation past, anchored by rich, multi-dimensional characters and oozing with irresistible charm. On the verge of losing everything, what's a family man to do? If you're a gambler like Babe, you double down and risk it all for one big score-this time, a plan involving railroad boxcars. But when Babe and a few comrades enlist in a scheme that improbably falls apart, he endangers the little security the family has. They both yearn for financial stability and see the land they own as insurance for future generations. He's also a dreamer, something he shares with his patient and loving wife, Rosie. Babe is a charismatic and widely loved man, a gambler with a gift for gab that often gets him out of tricky situations. The first novel from one of the original Kings of Comedy, Cedric "The Entertainer," an engaging and entertaining crime caper that is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities struggling to get by during the Depression and World War II. And as he trails Dodd deep into Texas, John accepts that this final reckoning between them may cost him more than all he's already lost. And not by Victoria Reavis, the telegraphist aiding him in his death-driven quest, yet hoping he'll choose to embrace a life with her instead. Marshal who threatens to arrest him for murder should he succeed. Untethered, single-minded in purpose, he will not be deterred. Traveling through the unforgiving landscape of a shattered nation in the midst of Reconstruction, John braves winter storms and confronts desperate people in pursuit of his quarry. Dodd is little more than a rabid animal, slaughtering without reason or remorse, needing to be put down. ![]() He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness, and wore a badge in the name of the law. John's beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered. ![]() By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post-Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World. ![]()
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