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Life and Death at Hoover Dam
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Released August 2010!
It’s 1931 and men are desperate for jobs. A lucky few will get to
work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive
Hoover Dam, the single largest public works project in history.
Their goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that
towers sixty stories high from the base of the canyon to the crest of
the dam and that will create the largest manmade lake in the world.
Life and Death at Hoover Dam tells the story of a handful of these
men, and the sacrifices they endured from choking on gasoline
fumes in five-story tunnels that exceeded 120 degrees to dangling
by slender cables from the thousand foot walls of the canyon to
blast the loose rock and gravel into oblivion. And together they’ll
fight the river with all their might, and perhaps their lives, as flash
floods threaten to destroy all they have worked to accomplish.
Meet the Conroy brothers; David an engineer who works directly
with Frank Crowe, Chief Engineer and the world’s foremost builder
of dams, and Pete, his older brother who is as wild as the
Colorado River itself. Pete is a crew foreman, first working on the
scraping and blasting of the sheer cliff walls into which the dam
must be anchored, and then in the massive forms where seven
million tons of concrete will settle—some say to last a thousand
years. Sean O’Donnell, a scrappy Irishman who worked on the
Empire State Building in New York City whose family desperately
wants him to come home. And Tony Capelli, the worker who will
pay the greatest price of all—a farmer from southern California
whose land will become verdant and productive once the flow of
Colorado River water is assured. But prejudice is rampant against
those of foreign birth, even though American citizens, and Tony will
face mortal danger as he struggles to stay on the job and feed his
family. In the end, these men and the 20,000 others who worked
on the dam will build a monument that will make possible the
palm trees of Los Angeles and the desert oasis of Phoenix. This is
the story of their lives—the men who built the matchless Hoover
Dam.
To read a complimentary short story about one of
the characters in his new book, click here. The
short story, "Runaway Train at Hoover Dam," will
leave you breathless and will give you a flavor for
what's coming in the book, an exciting tale about
the building of one of the most remarkable projects
in American History. The short story is not an
excerpt from the book. Let us know what you think
by clicking on "Ask Jerry" and sending your
thoughts about the story.
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