Black duck
By: Janet Taylor Lisle.
Publisher: Philomel Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Prohibition -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; Gangsters -- Fiction; Newport (R.I.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.