04557cam a2200349 4500 278399891 TxAuBib 20161117120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316268622 0316268623 B017RQP41O Amazon c8087e56-d438-4d21-9b00-0c5cb5dab661 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2469306 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Winters, Ben H. Underground Airlines [Libby eBook]. Little, Brown and Company, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1740kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1740kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:Now a New York Times bestseller! 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.. HTML:Starred review from May 2, 2016 Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man meets Blade Runner in this outstanding alternate history thriller from Edgar-winner Winters (The Last Policeman). Victor, an African-American bounty hunter for the U.S. Marshals Service, possesses a supreme talent for tracking down runaway slaves in a world in which there was no Civil War and slavery still exists in four Southern states. He’s a master of disguise and dissembling. Victor tracks a runaway slave code-named Jackdaw to Indianapolis, Ind., where he ingratiates himself with Father Barton, a purported leader of an abolitionist organization called Underground Airlines, and succeeds in penetrating the group. But soon thereafter Victor impulsively befriends Martha Flowers, a down-on-her-luck white woman traveling with her young biracial son, Lionel, a kindness that soon jeopardizes Victor’s carefully constructed cover identity. The novel’s closing section contains several breathtaking reversals, a genuinely disturbing revelation, and an exhilarating final course of action for Victor. Agent: Joelle Delbourgo, Joelle Delbourgo Associates.. Publisher's Weekly. Historical Fiction. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-11-16 23:00:03. http://nm.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=c8087e56-d438-4d21-9b00-0c5cb5dab661 http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c8087e56-d438-4d21-9b00-0c5cb5dab661&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c8087e56-d438-4d21-9b00-0c5cb5dab661&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c8087e56-d438-4d21-9b00-0c5cb5dab661&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)