false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180443158m/1040320.jpg 1040320 2 <p>Robert Elgin died on the street, knocked down and run over by a Second Avenue bus while pursuing a woman he thought he could not live without.</p> <p>In a tale told from the end to the beginning, we meet Robert Elgin, who, after stumbling upon a secret slush fund his political bosses have been skimming off the public, takes the money and runs.</p> <p>But back home in Michigan, Elgin's children must wonder what has become of their father. Of course he can't just leave them there; he can't just run away. But he doesn't know how to go back, either. And he has to.</p> <p>A spellbinding literary noir, <i>Safe in Heaven Dead</i> reveals a world of people struggling to do what's right when everything seems wrong, a world of people resisting surrender to the corruption that surrounds them, and a world that, in the face of apparent hopelessness, somehow still breeds hope.</p> 1026690 2003 Safe in Heaven Dead: A Novel total:18|5:6|4:6|3:5|2:1| 18 71 31 1 5 0 false false Thu Jan 03 11:41:08 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 11:41:27 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Oct 21 09:02:51 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 09:02:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 21:08:38 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 09:45:20 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Oct 04 00:20:10 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 00:20:10 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 08:50:03 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 08:50:31 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Aug 19 23:06:56 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 21:07:34 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 23:06:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jun 08 22:34:42 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 22:34:42 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed May 27 08:07:30 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 08:07:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 23 11:08:50 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 11:08:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 27 20:01:12 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 21:22:39 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Dec 21 15:47:57 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 15:47:57 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Dec 17 12:38:58 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 12:38:58 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Oct 18 13:50:55 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 13:50:55 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Oct 08 09:52:42 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 09:52:42 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Oct 07 22:15:20 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 22:15:20 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Aug 27 12:55:18 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 12:55:37 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jul 18 09:48:33 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 09:48:33 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jul 07 21:54:53 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 21:54:55 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Apr 26 06:33:55 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 06:34:00 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Apr 26 05:41:04 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 05:41:09 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1040320