Underground airlines
(CD Audiobook)
It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smart phones, social networking, and happy meals--save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn't right--with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself. A mystery to himself, Victor suppresses his memories of his childhood on a plantation, and works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines. Tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child who may be Victor's salvation. Victor himself may be the biggest obstacle of all--though his true self remains buried, it threatens to surface.Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost. Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe.
Notes
Winters, B. H., & Demeritt, W. (2016). Underground airlines. [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Winters, Ben H. and William, Demeritt. 2016. Underground Airlines. [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Winters, Ben H. and William, Demeritt, Underground Airlines. [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Audio, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Winters, Ben H., and William Demeritt. Underground Airlines. [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Audio, 2016.
Record Information
Last Sierra Extract Time | Mar 21, 2024 10:41:31 PM |
---|---|
Last File Modification Time | Mar 21, 2024 10:42:16 PM |
Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Mar 28, 2024 07:52:15 PM |
MARC Record
LEADER | 03383cim 2200481Ii 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | ocn952043597 | ||
003 | OCoLC | ||
005 | 20160909020957.0 | ||
007 | sd fungnnmmneu | ||
008 | 160622s2016 orunnnng z n eng d | ||
019 | |a 951820576|a 953699857 | ||
020 | |a 9781478916741 | ||
028 | 0 | 2 | |a ZPbu99|b Blackstone Audiobooks |
040 | |a BLACP|b eng|e rda|c BLACP|d OCLCO|d OCLCF|d UUC|d OCLCO|d JTA|d OCL|d OCLCO|d TEFMT|d TEF|d JTH | ||
050 | 4 | |a PS3623.I6735|b U53 2016ab | |
072 | 7 | |a FIC|x 031000|2 bisacsh | |
072 | 7 | |a FIC|x 040000|2 bisacsh | |
082 | 0 | 4 | |a 813/.6|2 23 |
100 | 1 | |a Winters, Ben H.,|e author. | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Underground airlines /|c Ben H. Winters. |
264 | 1 | |a [Ashland, Oregon] :|b Blackstone Audio :|b Hachette Audio,|c 2016. | |
300 | |a 8 audio discs (approximately 9.5 hr) :|b CD audio, digital ;|c 4 3/4 in. | ||
336 | |a spoken word|b spw|2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a audio|b s|2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a audio disc|b sd|2 rdacarrier | ||
344 | |a digital|b optical|2 rda | ||
347 | |a audio file|b CD audio|2 rda | ||
500 | |a Unabridged. | ||
511 | 1 | |a Read by William Demeritt. | |
520 | |a It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smart phones, social networking, and happy meals--save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn't right--with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself. A mystery to himself, Victor suppresses his memories of his childhood on a plantation, and works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines. Tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child who may be Victor's salvation. Victor himself may be the biggest obstacle of all--though his true self remains buried, it threatens to surface.Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost. Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe. | ||
538 | |a Compact discs. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Bounty hunters|v Fiction. | |
650 | 0 | |a Slavery|z United States|v Fiction. | |
650 | 0 | |a Conspiracies|v Fiction. | |
655 | 7 | |a Alternative histories (Fiction)|2 lcgft | |
655 | 7 | |a Thrillers (Fiction)|2 lcgft | |
700 | 1 | |a Demeritt, William,|e narrator. | |
907 | |a .b24377909 | ||
932 | |f CD|a FICTION Winters, B. | ||
945 | |y .i7459834x|i 33029101341527|l valag|s -|k |u 8|x 1|w 1|v 8|t 35|z 09-15-16|o - | ||
945 | |y .i74598363|i 33029101341519|l cooag|s i|k |u 8|x 1|w 0|v 11|t 35|z 09-15-16|o - | ||
994 | |a JRS | ||
998 | |e -|d i |f eng|a coo|a val |