{"subjects": ["Drug traffic", "Heroin abuse", "Fiction", "Anti-communist movements", "New York Times reviewed", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Fiction, historical, general"], "key": "/works/OL488573W", "title": "The disappearing body", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL30536A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [242116], "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/books/that-old-noir-magic.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"When Victor Ribe, an ex-junkie and World War I veteran, is mysteriously released from prison after serving fifteen years for a murder he didn't commit, the city he returns to is heating up for another kind of war. Prohibition has been repealed and the underworld is developing a new source of profits - illegal heroin trafficking. Meanwhile, the city's legitimate industries are launching an offensive against unionization and the specter of Communism - and they're not above fighting dirty.\".\n\n\"When Victor's old Army buddy Freddy Stillman, a munitions salesman, reports a murder but can't explain why the body has disappeared, he unwittingly pulls himself and Victor into this bewildering swirl of corruption.\n\nIt is a conspiracy that encompasses everyone - from a rising politician who may have just run into the end of his career to a young journalist driven as much by the nonstop energy of the Metro desk as she is by the mystery of her father's suicide - in the book's vast, noir cityscape.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-08T03:26:46.958992"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-11-14T22:07:39.993988"}}