St. James Park

<p><strong>A sweeping tale that offers lessons from the not-so-distant past. <em>-Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p><strong>Doll masterfully reveals what lies just below the surface of every human soul. -Judge Paul Bernal official historian of the City of San Jose</strong></p><p><strong>Cinematic in its scope St. James Park is a movie waiting to be made. -Joe Talbot director of <em>The Last Black Man in San Francisco</em> (2019)</strong></p><p></p><p>In a time when department stores ruled downtowns a prominent store heir is kidnapped in 1933 under suspicious circumstances and Hoover's Bureau of Investigation sends cynical agent Louis Cooper to investigate.</p><p>Cooper discovers that this crime is only a prelude to a dangerous play by the local power structure to expand control amid spiraling economic disruption labor unrest and anti-immigrant racism.</p><p>As Cooper unravels long-standing but shifting alliances of business leaders city officials and mobsters he learns who is behind the kidnapping and why-but not in time to prevent a raging mob bent on vengeance.</p>