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Philip M. Weinstein

    January 1, 1940
    The twenty-seventh city
    • The twenty-seventh city

      • 528 pages
      • 19 hours of reading
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      St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.

      The twenty-seventh city