Why a Booktrail?
WW1 onwards – Boston is a city in turmoil as soldiers return home from World War One, bringing with them an epidemic of Spanish influenza.
The Given Day
What you need to know before your trail
Danny Coughlin is the son of one of Boston’s most powerful police captains. An undercover cop, he is hunting for revolutionaries and anarchists who, in the aftermath of war, are pledged to overthrow the city’s ruling classes.
Luther Lawrence is on the run. Having survived a murderous confrontation with a crime boss, he lands a job in the Coughlin household. But it isn’t long before his dangerous past and his tenuous present are on a life-threatening collision course.
The city is heading down a dangerous spiral…
Locations
Reset- America/USA - Massachussets
- A: Boston - Red Sox
- B: Boston - Boston Police Headquarters
- C: Boston - Boston City Hall
- America/ USA - Ilinois
- D: Chicago - The Cubs
- E: Chicago - Police Dept
- F: Chicago - Chicago Station
- G: Chicago - Sixth Ward
Travel Guide
Boston
A city in utter turmoil – soldiers returning after the WW1, the city in ruins in many ways and the spread of disease is rife. Everything is changing and not for the best.
” The voters had handed him a city of peerless reputation. The Athens of America, the birthplace of the American Revolution and two president,seat to more higher education that any other city in the nation, the Hub of the university.
And on his watch, it was disassembling itself brick by brick”
Chicago
The city is heading down a dangerous spiral…this is the Chicago of war time fear, restrictions and
“Due to travel restrictions placed on major league baseball by the War department, the world series of 1918 was played in September and split into two stands. The Chicago Cubs hosted the first three games”
Leaving the city by train
“The air was woolen with smoke and the stench of butchered cattle…..he watched the spangle of Chicago’s skyline rise before him
Chicago is a new city gentlemen. The fire wiped it clean of history, of values…”
The Death carts
“Death carts roamed the streets for bodies placed on porches the night before and morgue tents sprang up all over eastern Pennsylvania and Wester New Jersey. In Chicago, it took hold first of South Side, then on East, and the rails carried it out across the plains”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Given Day
Author/Guide: Dennis Lehane Destination: Boston, Chicago Departure Time: 1918
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