Based on a true story--a brilliant, compelling, and provocative
novel of the roots of terrorism and the perils of the immigration
experience set in turn-of-the-century London
On December 16, 1910, three unarmed London policemen were killed
by a gang of Latvian revolutionaries. Among the most sensational
crimes of the era, the Houndsditch Murders sparked an unprecedented
manhunt across the capital, and then exploded into the gunfight
that entered history as the Siege of Sidney Street. Hundreds of
heavily armed soldiers, assembled by then home-secretary Winston
Churchill, descended upon the gang. After hours of bloody battle,
the police broke into the hideout and discovered the corpses of two
men. The ringleader they had expected to find--an urbane and
charismatic revolutionary known as Peter the Painter--had
mysteriously vanished, along with his mistress, Rivka, a young
refugee and Yiddish music hall singer.
Based on a compelling true story, "A Storm in the Blood" is a
gripping tale filled with strange and disturbing echoes, violence,
ethnic unrest, political subterfuge, and terrorism--as shocking
today as the original events were in 1910.
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