Accueil Stephen hunter Téléchargez gratuitement des ebooks pdfs Hot Springs en français. Votre AdBlock interrompra le téléchargement. Lien miroir. Please allow notifications to be able to download files. Block Allow. Stephen Hunter , William Dufris. In the summer of , the most wide-open town in America is Hot Springs, Arkansas, a city of ancient, legendary corruption. It is run by an English-born gangster named Owney Maddox, who represents the New York syndicate and rules his empire like a Saxon lord while sporting an ascot and jodhpurs.
But it is all about to be challenged. He begins a war on the gambling interests and, knowing the war will be long and bloody, hires an ex-Marine sergeant, Earl Swagger, who won the Medal of Honor on Iwo Jima, to run it. Swagger knows how to fight with guns as well as any man in the world. But he is haunted: the savage fighting he just barely survived and the men he left behind in the Pacific still shadow his mind, leaving a terrible melancholy.
There are even darker memories: a murdered father who beat him mercilessly and drove a younger brother to suicide. The gangsters fight back, setting up a campaign of ambush and counterambush in the brothels, casinos and alleys of the City of the Vapors.
Raids erupt into full-out combat amid screaming prostitutes and fleeing johns. The body count mounts. Will Owney Maddox defeat the raiders but lose a personal battle against a cunning rival from the West who foresees a Hot Springs in the Nevada desert as the future franchise city of organized crime?
But most important, will Earl Swagger survive yet another hard war, not merely with his body but also with his soul intact?
