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Eureka

William Diehl

Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 538 Users | 57 Reviews

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Original Title:	Eureka
ISBN:	0345411471 (ISBN13: 9780345411471)
Edition Language:	English

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Eureka. It’s what you say when you strike gold. It’s also a town in California where the truth might be buried forever.

In New York Times bestselling author William Diehl’s thrilling, accomplished new novel, the seamy past of America’s most glamorous state lies in this deceptively peaceful area, one hundred miles north of Los Angeles. It was the lawless place from which young, rugged Thomas Culhane escaped to fight World War I. Now it’s a place where, two decades later, police detective Zeke Bannon investigates a death that seems a sad accident.

Until you look a bit closer.

The year is 1941. Verna Wilensky has been electrocuted in her bathtub, leaving a lower-middle-class life, no survivors, and a bank account packed with almost a hundred thousand dollars. Mysterious checks have consistently come to her for more than twenty years, most drawn from a bank in San Pietro, a town once known as Eureka.

Eureka was a town that used to be a bootlegger’s paradise and a gangster’s dream. Now it is the rebuilt metropolis where Sheriff Thomas Culhane is launching a bid to be the golden state’s next governor. But something just might threaten his ambitions. As Bannon digs deeper into Wilensky’s demise, he unearths a decades-old secret that starts in a shootout, builds to a bloodbath, and could end up within the upper echelons of California’s elite, forever changing the destiny of a state.

Rich in historical detail, complex in its connection between past and present, and filled with the nonstop action that are the hallmarks of this modern master, Eureka is an epic achievement of storytelling and suspense–William Diehl’s most extraordinary novel yet.


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Title	:	Eureka
Author	:	William Diehl
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2003 by Fawcett (first published January 1st 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Thriller

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Ratings: 3.7 From 538 Users | 57 Reviews

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I thought I had read all of Diehl's novels, but came across this one at a library book sale. I believe it was his last completed work before his death in 2006. Though drastically different from his earlier books, I still enjoyed this tale that began at the turn of the century and ended after World War II. Both "heroes" were likable in their own way with perhaps a bit more in common than either of them realized.Given the opportunity to ask the author a question, I would do so about a couple of

Quit reading it. Not my genre and too slow getting me hooked.

Pretty standard cop novel, with the somewhat novel twist of starting out with several much earlier vignettes in which the main characters are seen in the wild west and then in WW1. These are presumably intended to provide us with backstory for the purpose of making the characters richer. To that extent, the device was only somewhat successful, as I felt the story would have been pretty much as good if Diehl had foregone that initial 75 pages or so of earlier stuff. Overall, a decent cop story,

I really enjoyed this book. The characters, the story, I didn't expect the ending. Good read!

.5 STARS "Thomas Culhane leaves the Californian town of Eureka to make his way in the world. On his return, he becomes sheriff, and 20 years later he is about to run as state governor. But how is he connected to the mysterious death of a woman and how did she get $100,000 in her bank account?" (From Amazon)I did not care for this novel as it lacked the suspense and seemed rushed.

This is the 4th Diehl book I have read. He has got me hooked. If you are into well-plotted mystery/suspense novels with wonderful character development, you just might get hooked as well. It is difficult to 'guess' what is going to happen next. Eureka is like a historical novel in that it takes place in gold-rush California and current day California. A good read.

Eureka has more appeal for me because it has a historical setting, though this only partly obscures other problems. The book is mainly set in 1941 California. But it begins with a few chapters of 1900, a few of 1918, and one of 1945. This is the author's nervous belief that we may not be paying attention: he could easily have integrated the old story in the current story without resorting to chapters of disjointed time.Everything else has buts, too. The story has a nice noir feel: tough guys,