The disappearing body
Subtitle: a novel
By: David Grand.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Drug traffic -- Fiction.; Heroin abuse -- Fiction.; Anti-communist movements -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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 Prohibition has been repealed and the underworld is developing a new source of profits - illegal heroin trafficking.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.".

"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.

It 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.