The fourteenth novel from Green, who is perhaps better known for "The Last Angry Man," "To Brooklyn With Love," and "The Lotus Eaters, features an unlikely hero -- Daniel D. Vormund, 80 years old, a retired professor, who stands between the creatures...
The life of beautiful Eva Heilig--socialist, visionary, and orator--is intertwined with the lives of three generations of Chains, a rough, intrepid family of Brooklyn hoodlums, bootleggers, and ultimately, millionaire businessmen...