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Indian Summer

The tale unfolds against the backdrop of the closing frontier, the final destruction of Indian resistance, the removal of Native American children to Indian schools for "civilizing," newspaper chains' circulation wars, and the emergence of baseball as a dominant sport. Sockalexis, first in summer leagues in Maine, then at the College of the Holy Cross, and finally in Cleveland, blazes across the baseball sky as a true, and tragic, supernova.
--Boston Globe


Selected Works

Memoir
Last Call at Elaine’s: A Journey From One Side Of The Bar To The Other
This is a rambunctious story full of self-deprecating humor, addiction, tragedy, outbreak, lies, rowdy nights and laughter.
--Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming
My Father’s Gun: One Family, Three Badges, One Hundred Years In The NYPD
An unsparing document of the thin line in law enforcement between heroism and infamy
--Publisher’s Weekly
Nonfiction
Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket
Love, deception and death—in the one place where nobody thought that it could happen…



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