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Автор: Van Onselen, Charles
Название: Showdown at the red lion
ISBN: 9781868426225
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Подлинные преступления

Историческая художественная литература

Преступность и криминология

ISBN-10: 186842622X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 515
Вес: 0.72 кг.
Дата издания: 01.01.2015
Серия: Fiction
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: B/w photos & illus
Размер: 155 x 234 x 40
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: Historical fiction
Подзаголовок: The life and time of jack mcloughlin
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Johannesburg was -- and is -- the Frontier of Money. Within months of its founding, the mining camp was host to organised crime: the African Regiment of the Hills and Irish Brigade bandits. Bars, brothels, boarding houses and hotels oozed testosterone and violence, and the use of fists and guns was commonplace. Beyond the chaos were clear signs of another struggle, one to maintain control, honour and order within the emerging male and mining dominated culture. In the underworld, the dictum of honour among thieves, as well as a hatred of informers, testified to attempts at self-regulation. A real man did not take advantage of an opponent by employing underhand tactics. It had to be a fair fight if a man was to be respected. This was the world that One-armed Jack McLoughlin -- brigand, soldier, sailor, mercenary, burglar, highwayman and safe-cracker -- entered in the early 1890s to become Johannesburgs most infamous Irish anti-hero and social bandit. McLoughlins infatuation with George Stevenson prompted him to recruit the young Englishman into his gang of safe-crackers but Stevo was a man with a past and primed for personal and professional betrayal. It was a deadly mixture. Honour could only be retrieved through a Showdown at the Red Lion.

Showdown at the red lion, Van Onselen, Charles