Author Description

"A fortune in gems, star-crossed lovers, the sole survivor of a ferocious blast, these are the ingredients of a deadly game played out on the same Midwestern checkerboard where Dillinger, 'Baby-Face' Nelson, and Bonnie and Clyde made their moves. Inspired by the historical event of the powder-house blowup on New Year's Eve of 1936, the fiction spirals outward to encompass the down-and-outers of the criminal underworld, the international diamond trade, and a world bracing for war."--Jacket.