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Authors: Robert K. Tanenbaum

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2013 by Robert K. Tanenbaum

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First Gallery Books hardcover edition August 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tanenbaum, Robert.

Tragic / Robert K. Tanenbaum.—First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

p. cm.

1. Karp, Butch (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Ciampi, Marlene

(Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Stevedores—Fiction 4. Labor unions—Corrupt practices—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3570.A52T73   2013

813'.54—dc23

2013005283

ISBN 978-1-4516-3555-3

ISBN 978-1-4516-3560-7 (ebook)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Epilogue

About Robert K. Tanenbaum

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