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Overview: Who knew which big-time celeb was a Commie?
All were on the Ice Queen’s secret list. All Jake had to do was steal it.
Jake McHenry spent five years in Germany after Hitler’s War, coming home rich with ill-gotten Nazi treasure.
Back in Brooklyn, he becomes a private detective because he needed a pretend job to hide the source of his riches. Mostly he went to most Brooklyn Dodgers games at Ebbets Field and drank beer.
Then Joe McCarthy enters the picture. McCarthy wants Jake to steal a secret list of celebrity American communists from the Ice Queen, a rich high-society commie. The list features famous celebs like Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, and Edward G. Robinson.
It’s easy for Jake to break into the Ice Queen’s brownstone in Manhattan and steal the list. However, the theft unleashes a wild flurry of Russians, North Koreans, J. Edgar Hoover, mobsters, and the most beautiful woman Jake had ever seen in a chase for the list.
There’s nothing like being young, handsome, and a private detective in Brooklyn in the Spring of the year.
In the background is the greatest pennant race in the history of Major League Baseball. It’s 1951, and the New York Giants chase the Brooklyn Dodgers for the National League Pennant. That’s the year that Bobby Thompson hit the “shot heard ’round the world.”
The pennant—and Jake’s life—comes down to the last inning and the last pitch at the Polo Grounds in New York City on Wednesday, October 3, 1951.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller Noir
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