Catskill - John R. Hayes - Hardcover - 1 ED

In 1938, the isolated Catskill mountain town of Chicken Corners, near Lake Repose in upstate New York is drawn into the events of the world beyond. For 200 years the beautiful Catskill mountain area had been home (or second home) to city people of all stripes, from fugitive slaves to wealthy German-Jews and wealthier society folk. The Catskills are beautiful, but they are not paradise. Like everywhere else, there is greed and bigotry and murder.One evening three young men climb a hillside with rifles on their shoulders and fire down on a dilapidated farmhouse packed with refugee Jews. They aim high, but at the end of their foray a local woman lies dead.It falls on Martin Collins, an old Tammany Hall politician, to take charge. He calls in his chips from a powerful friend in the church, enlists his frightened grandsons, and works closely with the half-Algonquin sheriff and a varied handful of other residents to a harrowing climax, one that foils an attempted land grab and overcomes a legend, at the cost of human life.Hayes, John R. is the author of 'Catskill - John R. Hayes - Hardcover - 1 ED' with ISBN 9780312281533 and ISBN 0312281536.