# The Blast - Hardcover

by **Joseph Matthews** (Author)

San Francisco, 1916. The streets  
roiling: pitched battles between radical workers and the henchmen of industrial  
barons, and between a vibrant, largely Italian immigrant anarchist milieu and  
the forces of state and church. All in the looming shadow of Europe's raging  
war, and of a fierce struggle over whether the U.S. should commit its might,  
and human fodder, to the slaughter in the trenches.

  

Into this maelstrom arrives Kate  
Jameson, a novice envoy from Washington tasked to secretly investigate the  
tenor of support for war entry among San Francisco's business elite. She's also  
hoping to glimpse her wayward daughter, Maggie, whose last message to Kate had  
come from there. And, too, she's seeking the ghost of her husband Jamey, who  
fifteen years earlier had landed there upon his return, shattered, from his  
part in the U.S. occupation of the Philippines.  

  

Arriving back in the city at the  
same moment is Baldo Cavanaugh, a Sicilian-Irish son of San Francisco whose militant  
beliefs and special skills have led him time and again to the violent extremes of  
the city's turbulent history. And who now must confront the doubts and demons of  
his own character, which he'd sought to escape by fleeing the city three years  
before.  

  

  

This stunning tale  
explores how these two seemingly disparate characters become engaged with the city's  
and nation's turmoil, and with the complexities of their related pasts in  
Boston, Dublin, London, Cuba, and the Philippines. A vivid picture of a city  
and a moment, the novel brilliantly reveals the explosive admixture of the  
deeply personal and the deeply political.

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9.5 x 6.4 IN

**Publication Date:** January 04, 2022

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