Father Divine's Bikes

✍ Scribed by Peace Mission Movement;Peace Mission Movement.;Bassett, Steve;Father Divine

• Book ID: 100645015
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 360 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New Jersey--Newark., Newark (N.J.
• ISBN: 1543927599

✦ Synopsis

FATHER DIVINE'S BIKES exposes the dark underbelly of 1945 Newark, New Jersey; a city that boomed during World War II but finds itself unable to cope with the peace that brings joblessness, despair and crime. As deeply-entrenched white enclaves are squeezed by the mass migration of blacks, escape routes for poor ethnic whites rapidly close. Two Catholic altar boys living in a world ripe for grifters, like Father Divine, soon learn that his promise of heaven on earth has hellish consequences.

In the autumn of 1945, a battle erupts when the city's competing mobs end their truce. When it gets bloody, other criminal forces poise to move in. Black bookies, using Father Divine's controversial International Peace Mission Movement as a front, recruit Joey Bancik and Richie Maxwell to run numbers under the guise of newspaper routes.

The boys' families welcome the few bucks they can put on the table. Meanwhile, their parish priest and two homicide detectives fear...
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
Single Author : Steve Bassett
Original Source : New_Files_Train_Pack_2018-150
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Bassett, Steve
Title Length : 021
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ES Lib Name : NIRC 2018-10
Record ID : 6383
Uncomma Author : Steve Bassett
Num of Aut : 1

✦ Subjects

New Jersey -- Newark