The Sound of Silk

By Philip A. O'Connell Jr.

Set in the vice-ridden streets and alleys of old San Francisco and the hellish silver mines of the high Sierras, this fast-paced tale of treachery and betrayal recounts the last days of William Ralston, "the man who built San Francisco." Narrated in a waterfront garret by a Civil War veteran and disgraced policeman to a jaded newspaper editor, this page-turner is a confession of complicity in the degradation and destruction of a great man. The narrator, himself enslaved by his infatuation with a Chinese slave girl, becomes a deceitful instrument of the corruption that surrounds him, a corruption that ultimately leaves the novella's heroes and villains lost amidst "the tangled and impenetrable ruins of dreams."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508888523
• ISBN13: 9781508888529
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"