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Eureka

William Diehl

Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 538 Users | 57 Reviews

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Original Title:	Eureka
ISBN:	0345411471 (ISBN13: 9780345411471)
Edition Language:	English

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Eureka. It’s what you say when you strike gold. It’s also a town in California where the truth might be buried forever.

In New York Times bestselling author William Diehl’s thrilling, accomplished new novel, the seamy past of America’s most glamorous state lies in this deceptively peaceful area, one hundred miles north of Los Angeles. It was the lawless place from which young, rugged Thomas Culhane escaped to fight World War I. Now it’s a place where, two decades later, police detective Zeke Bannon investigates a death that seems a sad accident.

Until you look a bit closer.

The year is 1941. Verna Wilensky has been electrocuted in her bathtub, leaving a lower-middle-class life, no survivors, and a bank account packed with almost a hundred thousand dollars. Mysterious checks have consistently come to her for more than twenty years, most drawn from a bank in San Pietro, a town once known as Eureka.

Eureka was a town that used to be a bootlegger’s paradise and a gangster’s dream. Now it is the rebuilt metropolis where Sheriff Thomas Culhane is launching a bid to be the golden state’s next governor. But something just might threaten his ambitions. As Bannon digs deeper into Wilensky’s demise, he unearths a decades-old secret that starts in a shootout, builds to a bloodbath, and could end up within the upper echelons of California’s elite, forever changing the destiny of a state.

Rich in historical detail, complex in its connection between past and present, and filled with the nonstop action that are the hallmarks of this modern master, Eureka is an epic achievement of storytelling and suspense–William Diehl’s most extraordinary novel yet.


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Title	:	Eureka
Author	:	William Diehl
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2003 by Fawcett (first published January 1st 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Thriller

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Ratings: 3.7 From 538 Users | 57 Reviews

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Disappointed that it's not about the actual town of Eureka.

I like William Diehl, all he way back to Sharkys Machine, Thai Horse etc. He has a facination with World War 1 and in particular Belleau Wood. Be that as it may, this again is a great book. When a book i read ends and i go back and reread to find all the clues i missed it's a good read to me. As always at the books end, the denument gives the final answers, and not the ones you were expecting. Great factual basis with characters from the past briefly coming to life, mixed with the fantasy world

Reads like Raymond Chandler, a real 1940's detective story. Diehl's imagery is so good that I felt like I was watching an old black and white movie the whole time I read this. Loved it!

This book tries to do too much. The author wasn't sure which period he really wanted to write about and then sort of slammed them all together in a mish-mash of events that were a mixed bag. He starts off in the early 20th century, eventually moving to World War I, the Roaring 20's and then spends most of the time in the early 1940's. Granted, the mystery does go back quite a ways and SOME of the informationstory had to be told in order for the author to treat the reader fairly.The mystery

Quit reading it. Not my genre and too slow getting me hooked.

I generally steer clear of novels set in other than contemporary times but one of my web book friends gave this a strong recommendation and I am so glad he did. The story goes from 1900 through 1945 and follows the people of a small California town. A woman found dead in her bath in 1941 leads to a trail through the history of this small town. The book grips from word one to the end.

.5 STARS "Thomas Culhane leaves the Californian town of Eureka to make his way in the world. On his return, he becomes sheriff, and 20 years later he is about to run as state governor. But how is he connected to the mysterious death of a woman and how did she get $100,000 in her bank account?" (From Amazon)I did not care for this novel as it lacked the suspense and seemed rushed.