Gary Krist Books
Empire of sin
By Gary Krist
Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-year war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, per...
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Bad chemistry
By Gary Krist
Bad Chemistry poses an unsettling question: How much do we really know about the people we love - or about ourselves? Kate Theodorus used to be a cop in Chicago. Eager to escape the ugliness and v...
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City of Scoundrels
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The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a...
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The Mirage Factory
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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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