IRB Media Summary of Timothy Egan's Breaking Blue

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The former police chief, Bill Parsons, had a first-rate pension and medical plan, but it seemed to amount to nothing more than an open ticket to see more urologists and respiratory therapists. He could not take a breath of cool air.#2 Chief Bill Parsons, who had kept a secret his entire career, was now so lonely that it sometimes felt like physical pain. He longed for company, but hardly any of his former colleagues came around to visit him.#3 The man who had stirred Parsons, lighting fires under the dead and the near-dead, lived alone in a decaying three-story brick building about seventy-five miles north of Spokane. He had spent the last year thinking about September 1935.#4 In 1935, a crime occurred in the wilderness county of Spokane that became known as thecrime of the century. But little was known about it, and Bamonte was looking for people who could shed light on it.