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Empire of Sin

A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder and the Battle for New Orleans
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EMPIRE OF SIN is the vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s: a remarkable story of the city's thirty-years civil war, which pitted the elite against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. At its center is Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact. Surrounding him are flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy. Packed with marvelous characters - like brothel madams Josie Arlington and Lulu White, jazz musician Buddy Bolden, and Italian mobster Joseph Monfre - and propelled by an axe-murder mystery, this cinematic history reads like an action-packed novel.

Author Biography:

Gary Krist has written for the New York Times, Esquire, the Washington Post Book World, and elsewhere. He is the author of the bestselling City of Scoundrels and the acclaimed The White Cascade, as well as several works of fiction. He has been the recipient of the Stephen Crane Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lowell Thomas Gold Medal for Travel Journalism, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Release date Australia
November 15th, 2014
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
6 Illustrations, unspecified
Pages
424
ISBN-13
9781445644547
Product ID
22667425

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