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In the days before the great earthquake and fire of 1906, officials and politicians deemed San Francisco s Barbary Coast a moral cancer on their Paris of the Pacific, and back-alley vice and corruption were giving way to cable cars and European opera. Levi Hayes returns from San Quentin Prison after serving five years for the theft of $30, 000 in gold coins from the San Francisco Mint with a plan to take back what is his and kill the now-powerful Healey brothers who set him up and had his barroom, House of Blazes, seized by court order. To get back the House of Blazes, a property the Healeys plan to demolish, Levi recruits his nephew, Mack Lewis, telling him the gold coins wait hidden behind one of the cellar walls. Their wild scheme takes them through the rough streets, saloon halls, gambling dens, and houses of prostitution before the plan backfires.
About the Author
Publishers' Weekly calls Dietrich Kalteis's third novel Triggerfish a fast moving, high-octane page turner.The National Post said his second novel The Deadbeat Club deserves to be something of a breakout for Kalteis, and Crimespree Magazine calls it gritty and raw, satisfying the need for all things dark. His award-winning debut novel Ride the Lightning was hailed as one of the best Vancouver crime novels. More than 40 of his short stories have been published internationally, and his screenplay Between Jobs was a finalist in the Los Angeles Screenplay Festival. He lives with his family in Vancouver, BC.
