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008			151109s2016 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2015041417
020			_a9780316261241 (hardcover)
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043			_an-us---
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084			_aFIC031000 _aFIC040000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aWinters, Ben H.,
245	1	0	_aUnderground airlines / _cBen Winters.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1607
264		1	_aNew York : _bMulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, _c[2016]
300			_apages ; cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young Black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn't right--with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself. A mystery to himself, Victor suppresses his memories of his childhood on a plantation, and works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines. Tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child who may be Victor's salvation. Victor himself may be the biggest obstacle of all--though his true self remains buried, it threatens to surface. Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost. Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe"-- _cProvided by publisher.
596			_a1
650		0	_aBounty hunters _vFiction.
650		7	_aEnslavement _zUnited States _vFiction. _2enslv
650		0	_aConspiracies _vFiction.
650		7	_aFICTION / Thrillers. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Alternative History. _2bisacsh
655		7	_aAlternative histories (Fiction) _2lcgft
655		7	_aThrillers (Fiction) _2lcgft
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