Gary Krist Books
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
By Gary Krist
Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's moderniza...
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Chaos Theory: A Novel
By Gary Krist
"Chaos Theory is a thriller set against the background of Washington, D.C., in the mid-1990s - a city on the brink of economic, social, and moral collapse.". "Jason Rourke, who is white, and Denni...
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The Mirage Factory
By Gary Krist
From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of Cal...
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Chaos theory
By Gary Krist
A thriller featuring two college youths on the run from mobsters. The story begins when they leave a party in Washington to buy drugs. The dealer pulls a gun, thinking they, too, are dealers and th...
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Extravagance
By Gary Krist
"William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obse...
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