The best bad things
Alma Rosales is on the hunt for stolen opium. Trained in espionage by the Pinkerton's Detective Agency-but dismissed for bad behavior and a penchant for going undercover as a man-Alma now works for Delphine Beaumond, her former lover and the seductive mastermind of a West Coast smuggling ring. When...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Alma Rosales is on the hunt for stolen opium. Trained in espionage by the Pinkerton's Detective Agency-but dismissed for bad behavior and a penchant for going undercover as a man-Alma now works for Delphine Beaumond, her former lover and the seductive mastermind of a West Coast smuggling ring. When product goes missing at their Washington Territory outpost, Alma is offered a promotion if she can track the thief and recover the drugs. In disguise as the scrappy dockworker Jack Camp, this should be easy-once she muscles her way into the organization and wins the trust of the local boss and his boys, all while keeping them from uncovering her secrets. Her identity is not all she's hiding: At the same time she's searching for the missing opium, Alma is sending coded dispatches to the Pinkerton's agents detailing the smuggling ring's operations. As the sailors tell it, Port Townsend is just five miles from hell. Which suits Alma fine. It's the perfect setting for her game of aliases and double-crosses. But it's getting harder and harder to keep her cover stories straight. And to know who to trust. One wrong move and she could be unmasked: as a woman, as a traitor, or as a spy. |
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| Physical Description: | 386 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374123697 0374123691 |
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