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  <title><![CDATA[The Bridge: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>Sometimes, Philadelphia Police Detective Kevin Lynch feels like he has spent his whole life trying to put his past firmly behind him. But a harried call for help from a childhood friend whose child has gone missing changes all that. Now Lynch must summon the courage to return to his childhood home, the infamous housing project known as The Bridge. As the case unfolds and the search for Kenya, the missing girl, intensifies, the secrets guarded by her family and friends begin to emerge. The hidden truths are more sinister and malevolent than Detective Lynch could ever imagine, and once again, &lt;i&gt;The Bridge&lt;/i&gt; threatens to be his downfall. &lt;i&gt;Solomon Jones's The Bridge&lt;/i&gt; sets a new standard for the modern crime novel, one in which the root causes of crime must share the stage with their tragic consequences.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Discordant Harmonies</strong><br/><br/>Nine year-old, Kenya Brown, disappears from &quot;The Bridge&quot; a depressing housing project she lives in with her crack serving Aunt Judy, Judy's man Sonny, Kenya's uncle Darnell, and the pipers who come in and out of their place. <br/><br/>Kevin Lynch, a detect...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42145527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so far i think that the book is really now i just have to see what happends next.....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A must read for those from the Philadelphia area....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[scary look in to the unfortunate lives of so many]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay so I thought this was a ghetto drama but was pleasantly surprised to find a smart, street savvy novel about the most heartbreaking of circumstances: a missing child. In this book the abducted child serves as a catalyst to expose the lives of the streets, its inhabitants: drug dealers, drug user...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26229846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Bridge by Solomon Jones is a story of who done it about a sweet yet innocence nine year old Philly girl named Kenya Brown, who considers her Aunt Judy's apartment to be a house of horrors which unfortnately causes her the lost of her life at the hands of a love ones this book had my head spinnin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42267222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fast moving story.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Depressing book about a girl from the projects in N. Philly who is missing.  Lots of insight into the world of drug dealers in Philly.  The dialogue was difficult to understand, lots of car chases and the story advanced too slowly, so I only read half of it and gave up.]]></body>
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