One
Bad Weekend in One Bad Town . . . Butchertown.
“A darkly fascinating
novel.
Butchertown is incendiary”—
David Corbett, award-winning author of Mercy
of the Night.
“Burchfield rounds
up a great cast of
gangsters and gunsels to bat his wide-eyed hero around.”—Don
Herron, author of the
Literary World of San Francisco and Its
Environs and The
Dashiell Hammett
Tour
“A sexy, violent
non-stop thrill ride
deep into the seedy underbelly of post-World War I San
Francisco!” Critic’s
Report, The BookLife Prize, sponsored by Publishers Weekly.
Oakland, CA, 5/5/2017 – The first official book
release party for Butchertown,
Thomas Burchfield’s new
novel of 1920s gangland San Francisco Bay will be held this
coming Saturday May
13, 2017 at Stookey’s Club Moderne, 895 Bush Street (at Taylor)
from 3:00-4:30
PM, with doors opening at 2:30. The author will read from Butchertown, plus an excerpt from an upcoming
novel and will
provide signed copies of Butchertown
for
sale.
Butchertown
tells the story of Paul Bacon, ex-Navy
boxer,
Jazz-Age playboy and junior city attorney, who’s moved to
California expecting
sunshine and sandy beaches. But all he’s found is lonely misery
in the chilly
fog-choked canyons of 1920s San Francisco.
Then, one foggy night, he meets
Molly Carver. Alluring,
irresistible, mysterious, she lures Paul across San Francisco
Bay to her
hometown of Evansville, to what she claims is the California
promised in the
travel brochures.
But Molly’s promise is only
camouflage for a dangerous game.
Evansville is no paradise but a whirling sewer of sin and
perdition; a
wilderness of slaughterhouses, factories, oil refineries,
gambling dens,
brothels, and speakeasies even more decadent than San Francisco.
And within its
grimy, gritty heart, a gang war smolders, ready for someone to
throw a match.
They don’t call it Butchertown for
nothing.
ABOUT THE VENUE: Stookey’s Club Moderne, located
between Nob Hill and
Union Square, is a lounge evoking the style of post-prohibition
San Francisco
(1930-1940).
The
bar’s classic cocktails and Streamline-Moderne design, brings
its guests back
in time and into the mood of Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco.
(It is also the author's favorite watering hole.)
Contact:
Thomas Burchfield
amblerhouse@att.net
(510) 817-4432
http://amblerhouse.blogspot.com/
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Thomas Burchfield
amblerhouse@att.net
(510) 817-4432
http://amblerhouse.blogspot.com/
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