September 18th, 2007 – Book: White Shadow!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.18, 2007, under Books, Florida History!
WOW! Whattabook! It’s hard to grab all of the adjectives needed to praise this novel. Just read it!
This could be the best fictionalized non-fiction telling of more recent Florida History since ‘A Land Remembered’ by Patrick Smith.
It covers Tampa, Ybor City and Gibsonton history. Most of the figures in the story are real: Charlie Wall, Santo Trafficante, Hampton Dunn, George Raft, Fidel Castro, etc. Ace Atkins ties all of this together with a narrative that puts you at the scene in ’54. It’s a terrific book!
The novel had a bit more interest to me as my grandfather there in Ybor City in ’54-’55 and was part of a team investigating the very crimes that got Wall killed.
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