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Hold onto your historical hats. Daniel Alef's new dual novels, Pale Truth and Measured Swords, are that good. They are also frightening--as in frighteningly good--and inspiring. The reader stands warned. Don't read these books unless you can put the rest of your life on hold. And hold on. You'll love the ride. These are great stories.

In the school of E.L. Doctrow's classic, Ragtime, Mr.... More

Hold onto your historical hats. Daniel Alef's new dual novels, Pale Truth and Measured Swords, are that good. They are also frightening--as in frighteningly good--and inspiring. The reader stands warned. Don't read these books unless you can put the rest of your life on hold. And hold on. You'll love the ride. These are great stories.

In the school of E.L. Doctrow's classic, Ragtime, Mr. Alef has spent 10 years crafting these tales that venture with historic authenticity and page turning passion into a past world. The reader is transported to San Francisco in the 1800s. The City is on the cusp of transformation. Unprecedented wealth and criminal chaos are twin contestants vying against each other and with each other for the city's control. Rampant raw human ambition rules the day. Power, excess and cruelty define men. Fortunes are made in a day. And lost. New worlds are being born by the moment and lives snuffed in the same moment. The one vital monetary currency is gold dust. But the currency of power is the barrel of a gun. Or a stuffed ballot.

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