Flying Crows [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Lehrer, James, and Lehrer, Jim

ISBN 10: 1400061970 / ISBN 13: 9781400061976

Published by Random House (NY), New York, NY, 2004

About this Item

Near fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'Best wishes' by author on title page (no personalization). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket is fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 236 p. Audience: General/trade. Book has a tiny dent in the bottom of the front board and wear to the base of the spine. By the late Paul White Award-, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellowship-, University of Missouri School of Journalism's Medal of Honor-, William Allen White Foundation Award-, George Foster Peabody Award-, Fred Friendly First Amendment Award-, Emmy Award-, and National Humanities Medal-winning newsanchor and author of 'Top Down: A Novel of the Kennedy Assassination' and 'The Franklin Affair'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flying Crows [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Random House (NY), New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400061970
• ISBN 13: 9781400061976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

With Flying Crows, veteran newsman and bestselling author Jim Lehrer has written his most powerful novel, a work that moves masterfully from past to present and back again to solve the mystery that is American mayhem.

In 1997, police discover an old homeless man in the Kansas City train station. “Birdie Carlucci” claims he has lived there since 1933, hiding out in the storeroom of a Harvey House restaurant. Kansas City cop Lieutenant Randy Benton decides to discover the truth behind Birdie’s tale—and finds himself on a ride that leads ever backward into our country’s bloodstained past.

Benton’s investigation reveals the story of young Birdie, incarcerated in a brutal insane asylum where the preferred method of treatment is beating with a baseball bat. In that hopeless environment, though, he’s befriended by another patient, Josh Lancaster, once dismissed as a lost cause but snatched back from the brink by a compassionate doctor. But what is the secret of Lancaster’s involvement in an infamous Civil War encounter between Confederate bushwhackers and Union soldiers? And what truly happened after Birdie escaped from the asylum on the famous Flying Crow train?

As Benton returns to the present day, he wonders: How much, if any of it, really took place? What were the true public and private traumas of these two troubled men who can’t forget what they’ve seen or merely imagined?

Inspired by real events, Flying Crows is a novel that moves as inexorably as a train in the night to a shattering conclusion—one that reveals the many meanings of imprisonment and escape, and all the eccentricities and tragedies of the American soul.

About the Author

This is JIM LEHRER’s fourteenth novel. He is the executive editor/anchor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS and lives in Washington, D.C. He and his novelist wife, Kate, have three daughters.