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The Wire Devils follows a criminal gang of the same name who hijack a railroad’s telegraph lines to glean information about profitable shipments. Combining elements from dime-store novels and Frank L. Packard’s own experience on the rails, this is at once a hybrid western and a thriller still worth reading nearly a century after it was written.



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The Wire Devils

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    A Paperback by Frank L Packard

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 25 March 2013
      ISBN-13 9780816684564
      978-0816684564
      ISBN-10 0816684561
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      Trains and railways: general interest

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      The Wire Devils follows a criminal gang of the same name who hijack a railroad’s telegraph lines to glean information about profitable shipments. Combining elements from dime-store novels and Frank L. Packard’s own experience on the rails, this is at once a hybrid western and a thriller still worth reading nearly a century after it was written.



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      "Ingenious . . . Contains twists and exciting moments in sufficient number to make it an agreeable companion with which to pass a couple of idle evenings." —New York Times

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