| Description |
341 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"The Narrows takes place in Detroit, where Henry Ford's factories have been retooled for America's grand war effort. But there are also more clandestine operations under way - including a top-secret effort to produce golems - powerful beings fashioned from the earth - to destroy Nazis. Here lurk strange spies in unlikely places - and a not-so-extraordinary man who is inadvertently poised at the bizarre, urgent center of it all." "Spared fighting in Europe because of a bum hand, Jared wishes he could join the cause, instead of mindlessly sifting clay to be made into golems. But there is something that preys on his dreams: the devilish dwarf known as the Nain Rouge. In his youth, Jared once actually saw the Dwarf - a chilling creature that shows itself to individuals just before their demise. Now the Nain Rouge appears to be coming back for Jared himself." |
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"Many have a profound interest in Jared's childhood run-in with the Dwarf - including a German spy, Jared's hateful foreman at the golem factory, and a shape-shifting Indian shaman. But what could a simple man who earns a meager living possibly have to do with espionage and dark deeds? While Jared toils invisibly in the bowels of Ford's plant, the answer is about to reveal itself in a cataclysm of mythic and sinister proportions."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"A Del Rey Books trade paperback original"--T.p. verso |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Fiction.
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Factories -- Fiction.
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Rabbis -- Fiction.
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Golem -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102222
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| Genre/Form |
Alternative histories (Fiction)
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Fantasy fiction.
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War fiction.
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| LC no. |
2005041338 |
| ISBN |
0345466985 |
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