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Comprehensive history of Detroit, Michigan, and the Great Lakes region chronicling all the forces, foreign and domestic, that shaped it.

Wealthy Denver businessman and politician Ramon del Fuego has two obsessions possessing the storied golden religious icon, the Madonna dOro, for himself, and becoming Denvers mayor. Though the statues existence is in doubt, del Fuego hires Gulf War Veteran Paul Worthing to follow Karl Lieber, the one man, he is convinced, who knows where the Madonna dOro can be found. When del Fuego is led to what he discovers is instead a wooden copy, he is enraged. However, the faux Madonna appears to have its own miraculous powers, setting in motion a course of events that shines a light on the effect and persistence of religious myth in