of what it would be like to live in a different time and place. Whiskey River does just that. This book puts the reader directly into Detroit during prohibition. Loren Estlemen directs bootlegging gangsters, bull cops, bustling blind pigs, writers, newsies, and the general public flawlessly.
He tells a story of a larger than life individual battling for alpha position amongst cold blooded mobsters and killers to distribute his alcohol in a time when it was illegal. This story is narrated from the view of a newspaper writer who has earned his way into the inner circle and underworld of the alcohol trade.
If you like historical fiction, prohibition, gangsters, Detroit, hell if you just like a good story, read Whiskey River. You will love it.
