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The Raids
Mick Lowe
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Description for The Raids
Paperback. Series: The Nickel Range Trilogy. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
It’s spring, 1963 in the “Nickel Capital of the World.” Nineteen-year-old Jake McCool is about to undergo a rite of passage—his first shift underground in a hard rock mine. But the Cold War is at its height, and Jake is also about to become a reluctant participant in a bitter inter-union battle fuelled by the global struggle between two ideologies in the wake of the Second World War.
So is his girlfriend, Jo Ann Winters. Together the couple will be swept up in a web of intrigue; at its centre is a terrible secret that will haunt their relationship ... Read more
It’s spring, 1963 in the “Nickel Capital of the World.” Nineteen-year-old Jake McCool is about to undergo a rite of passage—his first shift underground in a hard rock mine. But the Cold War is at its height, and Jake is also about to become a reluctant participant in a bitter inter-union battle fuelled by the global struggle between two ideologies in the wake of the Second World War.
So is his girlfriend, Jo Ann Winters. Together the couple will be swept up in a web of intrigue; at its centre is a terrible secret that will haunt their relationship ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Baraka Books Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
The Nickel Range Trilogy
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781771860123
SKU
V9781771860123
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Ref
99-50
About Mick Lowe
A prolific journalist, writer and newspaper columnist, Mick Lowe is the author of the Canadian true crime classic Conspiracy of Brothers: A True Story of Bikers, Murder and the Law. Born and raised in Nebraska, USA, Lowe emigrated to Canada in 1970. He moved to Sudbury, Ontario in 1974 where he became an avid student of that city’s turbulent labour ... Read more
Reviews for The Raids
. . . a compelling story of political power, love and hatred all rolled into a gritty, hardhitting novel of the Nickel Range." —David A. Patterson, hard rock miner, former president Local 6500, USWA "If part of a writer’s task is to take us places where we would never go, Mick Lowe does so magnificently in The Raids… Lowe ... Read more