In 1913, the fledgling Bureau of Investigation was tasked wtih apprehending human traffickers. Not only were they hunting violators of the Mann Act, but they were tasked with ending peonage. As today, new immigrants were taken by unscrupulous people and sold into what virtual slavery.
A young police officer in Baltimore City receives an urgent message from his cousin, newly arrived from Ireland. Declan Nagel has been fooled into such a sitution, and is being held at a forced labor camp laying rails and building trestles. The BoI investigates the camp, in order to end the traffic in human beings.
A young police officer in Baltimore City receives an urgent message from his cousin, newly arrived from Ireland. Declan Nagel has been fooled into such a sitution, and is being held at a forced labor camp laying rails and building trestles. The BoI investigates the camp, in order to end the traffic in human beings.
Review for Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin
As a novelist and screenwriter, I know what goes into publishing a novel - even more so when it is based on historical events (see The Fourth Reich or The Phantom Train). The author impressed me so much with her style and wordsmanship, that I am now following her. Also, as a retired police sergeant, I love her framing the story around the original FBI which did not have muce power. Her historical environment was extremely accurate. I read it in one read because it became a page-turner. WELL DONE!
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