Hot springs

Description:

"In the summer of 1946, the most wide-open town in America is Hot Springs, Arkansas, a city of ancient, legendary corruption. While the pilgirms take the cure in the mineral-rich 142-degree water that bubbles from the earth, the brothels and casinos are the true source of the town's prosperity. It is run by an English-born gangster named Owney Maddox, who represents the New York syndicate and rules his empire like a Saxon lord while sporting an ascot and jodhpurs. But all that is about to be challenged." -- Jacket.

subjects: World War, 1939-1945,  Fiction,  Gangsters,  Bob Lee Swagger (Fictitious character),  Veterans,  Fiction, thrillers, general,  Arkansas, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  Criminals, fiction,  Swagger, bob lee (fictitious character), fiction,  Veterans, fiction

Places: Hot Springs (Ark.),  Hot Springs,  Arkansas