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Cold Desert Sky

It is 1946 and Charlie Yates has returned to his old job on a Los Angeles newspaper. When two starlets go missing, his investigations lead him back inexorably to his old adversary and worst fear, gang boss Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Faber
  • Year: 2019
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 196x127mm
  • ISBN: 9780571334728
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.3kg
Product code:
512979
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No one wanted to say it to me, that the girls were dead. But I knew . . .

Late 1946 and Charlie Yates and his wife Lizzie have returned to Los Angeles, trying to stay anonymous in the City of Angels.

But when Yates, back in his old job at the Pacific Journal, becomes obsessed by the disappearance of two aspiring Hollywood starlets, he finds it leads him right back to his worst fear: legendary mob boss Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a man he once crossed, and whose shadow he can't shake. As Yates's search for the truth draws him to the desert and the burgeoning city of Las Vegas, he finds himself caught between the FBI and the mob. Can he possibly see who is playing who, and find out what really happened to the girls?
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