Dead Line

by Paul Cockburn

Los Angeles 1910. They hated the LA Times so much, they blew it up, killing and injuring 40 people. It was “The Crime of the Century”. The nation was stunned. Detective William Burns tracked down the killers; ace attorney Clarence Darrow sprang to their defense. Political Columnist Bob Hirt thought this would make a great film script. But his own story was even more interesting.Paul Cockburn's exhaustively researched debut novel tells the stories of a group of journalist friends working in Los Angeles in 1910 and the astonishing labor unrest that convulsed California and the entire United States more than a century ago.

451 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2012