{"product_id":"the-blast-9781629639109","title":"The Blast","description":"\u003cp\u003eSan Francisco, 1916. The streets\nroiling: pitched battles between radical workers and the henchmen of industrial\nbarons, and between a vibrant, largely Italian immigrant anarchist milieu and\nthe forces of state and church. All in the looming shadow of Europe’s raging\nwar, and of a fierce struggle over whether the U.S. should commit its might,\nand human fodder, to the slaughter in the trenches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this maelstrom arrives Kate\nJameson, a novice envoy from Washington tasked to secretly investigate the\ntenor of support for war entry among San Francisco’s business elite. She’s also\nhoping to glimpse her wayward daughter, Maggie, whose last message to Kate had\ncome from there. And, too, she’s seeking the ghost of her husband Jamey, who\nfifteen years earlier had landed there upon his return, shattered, from his\npart in the U.S. occupation of the Philippines.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving back in the city at the\nsame moment is Baldo Cavanaugh, a Sicilian-Irish son of San Francisco whose militant\nbeliefs and special skills have led him time and again to the violent extremes of\nthe city’s turbulent history. And who now must confront the doubts and demons of\nhis own character, which he’d sought to escape by fleeing the city three years\nbefore.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis stunning tale\nexplores how these two seemingly disparate characters become engaged with the city’s\nand nation’s turmoil, and with the complexities of their related pasts in\nBoston, Dublin, London, Cuba, and the Philippines. A vivid picture of a city\nand a moment, the novel brilliantly reveals the explosive admixture of the\ndeeply personal and the deeply political.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph Matthews","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286855594235,"sku":"9781629639109","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781629639109.jpg?v=1772485567","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-blast-9781629639109","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}