Breaking Blue

Timothy Egan

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Sasquatch Books
15 October 2012

True crime

In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history. Bamonte began to probe what had every appearance of widespread police crime and a massive cover-up whose highlight was the unsolved murder of Town Marshall George Conff. The fact that many of those involved, now in their 80s and 90s, were still alive made it imperative that Bamonte unravel this mystery. The result is Breaking Blue, a white-knuckle ride through institutional corruption and cover-up that vividly documents Depression-era Spokane and an extraordinary case that few believed would ever be brought to light.

By: Timothy Egan
Imprint: Sasquatch Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 278g
ISBN: 9781570614293
ISBN 10: 1570614296
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 October 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Timothy Egan is the Pacific Northwest correspondent forThe New York Timesand the author ofThe Good Rain,Lasso the Wind, andThe Winemaker's Daughter. His first book, The Good Rain, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991. For The Worst Hard Time, a 2006 book about people who lived through the Great Depression's Dust Bowl, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Washington State Book Award in History/Biography. Egan lives in Seattle.

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""As a former police reporter I can give Breaking Blue the ultimate complement—I wish I had written it. No one who enjoys mystery can fail to savor this study of a classic case of detection"" --Tony Hillerman ""An engrossing tale of corruption in the Nor

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