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Breaking Blue |  | Author: Timothy Egan
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 206969
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1570614296
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230979721
EAN: 9781570614293
ASIN: 1570614296
Publication Date: August 18, 2004
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Product Description
In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the Midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony Bamonte discovered a strange 1955 deathbed confession while researching a thesis on local law enforcement history. Bamonte began to probe what had every appearance of widespread police crime and a massive cover-up whose highlight was the unsolved murder of Town Marshall George Conff. The fact that many of those involved, now in their 80s and 90s, were still alive made it imperative that Bamonte unravel this mystery. The result is Breaking Blue, a white-knuckle ride through institutional corruption and cover-up that vividly documents Depression-era Spokane and an extraordinary case that few believed would ever be brought to light.
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Great True Crime Book January 1, 2010
rhawk (Washington, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the best true crime books I've read. A truly haunting story.
Egan presents the story of a backwoods sheriff in eastern Washington in the late 1980s who solves a murder that occurred 50 years prior during the Great Depression.
This is a gripping book full of true life drama and suspense. I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended.
very well written November 19, 2007
Michael V. Decroff (Pahrump, NV)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a very well written and an easy read, I was born and graduated highschool, in Spokane,(then I moved on).
I had spent time in all the areas mentioned in this book, but I still learned alot of good history about the Spokane area reading this book.
The book perked my interest and even inspired me to look up family tree information, from the time frame of the book. I had an Uncle that hung out at Mothers Kitchen during those times. I wish he was alive now, I would ask him a lot of questions..... Very Interesting.
good book November 8, 2007
kg (texas)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this after "The Worst Hard Time". I liked this book much better. It's interesting on many levels. Tim paints a great picture of life in the 30's, and the life of the sherriff. I felt like I knew the characters. I have a theory that sometimes a book/author deserves an award, but the book gets passed up, so the next book gets the award. ;)
Breaking Blue May 6, 2007
Kansas Lady (Cleveland Ohio)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a great story and a very interesting read, because it was a real case that a lawman solved.
WOW! January 16, 2007
Sharon L. Keyser (Edmonds, WA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Mr. Egan has become my favorite non-fiction writer. I've reread The Good Rain several times, and read The Worst Hard Time as soon as it became available in paper back. I live in the Pacific Northwest and have come to appreciate the history that surrounds me. Mr. Egan's hero, Sheriff Bamonte, faced Herculean obstacles, and Mr. Egan presented it beautifully in Breaking Blue. After I finished reading Breaking Blue, I quickly mailed the book to my son who graduated from Gonzaga in 2005 and recommended that he read it since the story takes place in the Spokane area. The Spokane River which runs through downtown Spokane has a new meaning for me now!
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