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American fire

Monica Hesse

2017255 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2017
first published
  • 2017Liveright Publishing Corporation · ENGISBN 9781631490521
  • 2017Liveright Publishing Corporation · 255 pages · ENGISBN 9781631490514
  • 2018Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9781631494512

"The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police were stretched too thin to surveil them all. Accomack was desolate--there were hundreds of abandoned buildings. And by the dozen they were burning. The culprit, and the path that led to these crimes, is a story of twenty-first century America"--Provided by publisher.

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