- Private investigators, Bob Lee Swagger (Fictitious character), Prisons, Fiction
In 1951, after Sam Vincent disappears while investigating a prison for violent African American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, Earl Swagger finds himself confronting a town guarded by a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs.
Private investigatorsBob Lee Swagger (Fictitious character)PrisonsFictionHistorical fictionAfrican American prisonersSwagger, Bob Lee (Fictitious character) -- FictionPrivate investigators -- Mississippi -- FictionAfrican American prisoners -- FictionPrisons -- FictionMississippi -- FictionMississippi, fiction
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- Author
- Stephen Hunter
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 594
- Publisher
- Pocket Star Books, Thorndike Press, Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786239504
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Subjects
- Private investigators
- Bob Lee Swagger (Fictitious character)
- Prisons
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- African American prisoners
- Swagger, Bob Lee (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- African American prisoners -- Fiction
- Prisons -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Mississippi, fiction
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