Underground Airlines, by Ben H. Winters

June 30, 2018

*Underground Airlines*, by Ben H. Winters, published by Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, New York, U.S., July 2016 (1st ed.), 327 pp., hard cover.

Underground Airlines is plotted and described with such an eye for sweeping scale and personal drama that it is a good property to be made into a film. The detective in this case is a former slave who tracks down other escaped slaves. He is like a Classical Hollywood Cinema private eye; he assumes disguises, manipulates people skillfully to get information out of them, hangs out in seedy motels, has a nose and an eye for the tracks of his prey, wrestles with his personal demons and, in the end, gets the girl. (Keep reading…)

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