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Three brothers caught up in a whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal culminating in an assassination plot, set in prewar NY. June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother Michael are on an sea liner from Ireland bound for his or her brother Martin's home in New York City, having stolen a small fortune from the IRA. Through the week that employs, the lives of the three brothers collide spectacularly with big-band jazz musicians, a proficient but delicate heiress, a Jewish streets professional photographer facing a return to Nazi-occupied Prague, a vengeful mob employer, and the ghosts of their own family's cutting edge past. When Tom Cronin, an erstwhile assassin required into one last job, tracks the brothers down, their lives begin to fracture. Francis must surrender to blackmail or have his family are affected fatal results. Michael, wandering by itself, transforms to Lilly Bloch, a heartsick designer, to recover his lost storage. And Martin and his partner, Rosemary, try to salvage their marriage and, in the long run, the lives of the other Dempseys. Through the smoky jazz joints of Harlem to the Plaza Hotel, from the garrets of artists in the Bowery to the shadowy warehouses of mobsters in Hell's Kitchen, Brendan Mathews brings prewar NY to vibrant, pulsing life as the sweeping and intricate storytelling of this remarkable debut uncovers an America that blithely hoped it could avoid another catastrophic conflict and emphasis instead on the offer of the World's Fair: a peaceful, prosperous "World of Tomorrow".
