Zoot-Suit Murders

Author Thomas Sanchez

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It's the tumultuous days of World War II and from the mean streets of the Los Angeles barrio to the mansions of the Hollywood Hills the atmosphere is choked with tension. Nathan Younger, an undercover agent, is investigating the brutal murder of two FBI men and the infiltration of zoot-suit gangs by fascists when he crosses paths with Kathleen La Rue, a beautiful apostle of a bizarre religious cult. The search for the killers leads these two improbable lovers along a dangerous trail of heroin pushers, movie stars, and fanatical politicians.

Like his lavishly praised novels Rabbit Boss and Mile Zero, Thomas Sanchez's Zoot-Suit Murders combines a tautly arched narrative with fiercely visual prose and a starkly revisionist view of the American melting pot.

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July 20, 1991

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Thomas Sanchez, fifth generation Californian born days before his father was killed in World War II. Sent as a boy to orphanage/boarding school with Native, Black, White and Latino Americans. In the 1960s participated in iconic events -- Farm Workers Strikes, tumultuous U.C. Berkeley Free Speech Protest, counter-culture explosion of San
Francisco Haight-Ashbury. In the 1970s ran strategic supplies through Government armed forces with shoot-to-kill orders surrounding Indians under siege in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, site of the infamous 1890s massacre.

Sanchez lived seven years below the poverty line while dedicated to writing the generational epic, Rabbit Boss. The novel is listed by State Librarian of California Emeritus, Kevin Starr, as "one of the three or four finest novels…

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