{"product_id":"breaking-blue-paperback","title":"Breaking Blue - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Egan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history. Bamonte began to probe what had every appearance of widespread police crime and a massive cover-up whose highlight was the unsolved murder of Town Marshall George Conff. The fact that many of those involved, now in their 80s and 90s, were still alive made it imperative that Bamonte unravel this mystery. The result is Breaking Blue, a white-knuckle ride through institutional corruption and cover-up that vividly documents Depression-era Spokane and an extraordinary case that few believed would ever be brought to light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy Egan is the Pacific Northwest correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLasso the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Winemaker's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e. His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991. For \u003ci\u003eThe Worst Hard Time\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2006 book about people who lived through the Great Depression's Dust Bowl, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Washington State Book Award in History\/Biography. Egan lives in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 243\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 8.48 x 5.62 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763988103456,"sku":"9781570614293","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6f2c5a5d9e701a86feb46c731ba22369.webp?v=1780243263","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/breaking-blue-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}