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What the crate contains is something so powerful that forces from across three territories want to possess it.
Dixie is just about the last part of the former United States of America Lizbeth wants to visit. Worse, what seemed like a straightforward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. She finds a surprising ally, a wizard, who's also after the crate ... because its contents can make a permanent change in Dixie.
But can they track it down before the powers-that-be in the town of Sally track down Lizbeth and her wizard?
"A gripping, twisty-turny thrill ride of a read."—Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781501962820
- File size: 234439 KB
- Duration: 08:08:24
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- English
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Reviews
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November 25, 2019
The second installment in Harris’s Gunnie Rose series (after An Easy Death) does little to expand the alternate world it’s set in, resulting in a disappointingly flat fantastical analog of the Jim Crow South. Lizbeth Rose has joined a new crew of mercenary guards tasked with protecting a crate as it is moved from Texoma to Sally, a town in Dixie. When their train derails just short of their destination and the cargo disappears, Lizbeth suspects betrayal within the crew. As Lizbeth goes undercover to retrieve the crate, her erstwhile lover, Eli, shows up with a plan to help the black population of Sally rise up against the white family that controls the town. The cultural differences between Lizbeth, a Texoman gunslinger; Eli, a magic-using Russian prince; and the denizens of Sally are hinted at but underexplored. That revolution is stirred up by external forces instead of arising from within the oppressed black population, meanwhile, veers uncomfortably close to white savior narratives. Readers will be left unsatisfied. Agent: Joshua Bilmes, JABberwocky Literary.
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