Title: The Free City
Description: A short story set in a crime-ridden independent city state in New England. The story explores themes of organised crime, the american dream and redemption.
Subjects: Noir fiction, Organised crime, Gangs, American Dream, Redemption
Places: Massachusetts, England, Ireland, Sweden, Kiruna (Sweden), Stockholm (Sweden), Germany, Russia, Jamaica, Pennsylvania, Northern California, Salinas River Valley, Soledad CA, Plymouth (Mass.)
Time periods: 1923-1952 (epilogue 2006)