Gas City

Gas City PDF

Author: Loren D. Estleman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-03-03

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780765319593

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A powerful novel of corruption and redemption in a quintessentially American city

Gas City

Gas City PDF

Author: Loren D. Estleman

Publisher: Forge Books

Published: 2009-03-03

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781429925938

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Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces—greed and corruption, ambition and desire—run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage. A power struggle—between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful grasp, and media reporters looking for a big story—turns what has been a minor dispute into a desperate struggle for survival. Setting this drama, Gas City, in a blue-collar metropolis dominated by an oil company, Estleman, with an unerring eye for telling detail and an ear for dialogue that reveals the secret desires of his characters, crafts a fascinating, deadly tapestry of love, ambition, revenge, and redemption, a stunning portrait of the human condition. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Gas Boom of East Central Indiana

The Gas Boom of East Central Indiana PDF

Author: James A. Glass

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780738539638

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One of the most dramatic eras in Indiana history, the natural gas boom in the east central region transformed a mostly agricultural area into a major industrial center. The discovery of natural gas created major cities in the place of county seat towns, boomtowns where there had been villages, and factories towering over former farm land. The impact of the boom lived on even after gas itself failed. Through a collection of vintage images, authors James A. Glass and David G. Kohrman provide an overview of the boom era and its legacy in the four county seats of the gas belt: Muncie, Anderson, Kokomo, and Marion, as well as smaller communities such as Elwood, Fairmount, and Gas City.