Hot springs
Subtitle: a novel
By: Stephen Hunter.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Swagger, Bob Lee (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction; Gangsters -- Fiction; Hot Springs (Ark.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In the summer of 1946, the most wide-open town in America is Hot Springs, Arkansas, a city of ancient, legendary corruption. While the pilgirms take the cure in the mineral-rich 142-degree water that bubbles from the earth, the brothels and casinos are the true source of the town's prosperity. It is run by an English-born gangster named Owney Maddox, who represents the New York syndicate and rules his empire like a Saxon lord while sporting an ascot and jodhpurs. But all that is about to be challenged." -- Jacket.