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This is the WBZ book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. Local author Stephen A.

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White produced a crisp, fast read
of a thriller novel, all of

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the action taking place in Boston,
playing with history that's very familiar. The

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book is called Ash and Bone,
and its extaposes the disastrous fire in nineteen

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forty two that destroyed the Coconut Grove
and killed hundreds, and another fire thirty

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years later in June of nineteen seventy
two, the Von Dome hotel collapse that

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took the lives of nine Boston firefighters. A young seventeen year old bushboy in

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nineteen forty two named Liam mulvaney gets
involved with the wrong crowd that leads to

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the fire that destroyed the Coconut Grove, and Liam is racked with guilt,

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which might explain why he joins the
fire department and ultimately becomes a fire scene

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investigator. The Von Dome is the
first of a series of arson fires that

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killed dozens in Boston. The crazed
arsonist has a personal vendetta with Liam,

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whose task it is to stop the
arsonist before a cataclysmic event. Ash and

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Bone, the new novel by Stephen
A. White, the book Club.

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