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Shunned by his community...locked up for trying to help an innocent young lady...ambushed by competitors and still left for dead in the Detroit River, Joe Bernstein has a few ratings to settle, and a striking plan to seize control of the Electric motor City in its flourishing 1920s heyday. With his faithful "agent", Abie; his fantastic but fragile brother, Max; and an out-of-control enforcer named Grabowski (not forgetting a couple of carnivorous creatures known as "the babies"), Bernstein gives rise to the infamous Purple Gang - so named by local merchants because the gang's users were reported to be "tainted, like spoiled meat". Bernstein's guys set their sights on overtaking the Detroit River, the pipeline attaching dry out America to damp Canada. But Joe also must cope with having "a sweetheart in the nut house" and rising tensions within his gang. Most severe of all, the D.A.'s office has brought in an amputee battle hero named Riley - who appears to be one step ahead of Joe's big ideas.... A fast-paced thriller that builds to the climactic Collingwood Massacre (a seminal event that improved Detroit forever), The Purples mixes richly complete historical fiction with nonstop action, all narrated in the wry tone of voice of the smart, self-deluding, and remarkable Joe Bernstein.
