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"Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American cop from Boston, has just made detective when the United States joins World War II. His 'Uncle Ike' -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- has been chosen to command Army forces in Europe, and he wants billy to be his personal investigator. Billy, who had never left Boston before enlisting, is not so sure about his ability as a detective. But he dutifully sets off for London, where he'll be working with British Allies to catch...
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A #1 best-selling author shows how a boy from small-town New York made it to literary stardom.
How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? On the morning he was born, he nearly died. His dad grew up in the Pogey--the Newburgh, New York, poorhouse. He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell. While he toiled in advertising hell,...
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