The Killers : : A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia / / George Lippard; ed. by Matt Cohen, Edlie L. Wong.
PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband slave trade. Another son, hidden from his father since birth and condemned as a former felon, falls in with a ferocious street gang led by his elder brother and his reveng...
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