Suspension: 1 (Tom Braddock Series 1)

May 31 1883 3:55 p.m. Twenty thousand men women and children their faces shining in the late afternoon sun are strolling the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Brooklyn Bridge is open just a week its promenade a magnet for the teeming masses of New York and Brooklyn. An engineering marvel of transcending beauty the bridge is simply breathtaking.. In precisely five minutes it will fall.. Seven desperate men former Confederate soldiers turned saboteurs have labored for years to destroy the bridge which they saw as a symbol of hated Yankee supremacy.. Sergeant Detective Tom Braddock is one step behind the conspirators. Working through a series of murderous dead-ends Braddock has dogged the seven men from the cables of the bridge to the shadowy alleys of the Lower East Side and the back streets of Richmond Virginia. Slowly he has slowly drawn closer to the unthinkable truth a truth that none can accept...