The Net
Rex Beach
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Description
Rex Beach, author of The Spoilers and The Barrier, opens The Net with a train from Palermo, late, its long shadowy fingers reaching down as passengers wait. A confession and a promise, a golden girl, and a feast at Terranova follow, with what waited at the roadside, a new resolve, and a search beginning. Old trails, one who knows, Myra Nell Warren, and a kidnapping lead to La Mafia, the blood of ancestors, and the net tightening.
A later talk dismisses duels at dawn with shotguns of scrap iron, glad the war is over and such fashions past. It turns to antiques, where Jean Lafitte's original sword has just been sold, though good stuff pays poorly. Beach writes a Sicilian American tale of crime, honour, and quest, where a train delay opens a net that tightens chapter by chapter toward trial, verdict, and appeal.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rex Beach |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 560 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |