The White League [Hardcover]

Thomas Zigal (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Toby Press (1980)
• ASIN: B000N6B5LO
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Thomas Zigal (1948) was born in Galveston, Texas, and grew up in nearby Texas City. He received a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Stanford. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Kurt Muller mystery series set in Aspen, Colorado, and a thriller entitled The White League set in New Orleans. He has published short stories and book reviews in literary magazines and fiction anthologies for the past 30 years. Zigal lives in Austin, Texas.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kept me reading for eleven hours straight on a Sunday., September 19, 2005

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Martin Stadius (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The White League (Hardcover)

The editorial reviews give enough of a synopsis of the plot of this fine thriller, so I will not go over that territory and give anything away. The characters are complex and real, the historical underpinning dating back to the Reconstruction era fascinating, the writing clear and forceful. Kudos to the author.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars as good as it gets, February 21, 2005

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Steve Bean "[e-mail]" (olympia, wa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The White League (Hardcover)

A well-written thought-provoking thriller with a believable and logical ending. Impossible to put down. My favorite book in a long time. I thought Nelson Demile's Nightfall and Vince Flynn's Memorial Day were teriffic.This one is right up there with them, although entirely different genre, but all three make you think.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Close to Home, November 1, 2006

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David Zimmerman (Baton Rouge, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The White League (Hardcover)

A complete shot-in-the-dark to me was "The White League" by Thomas Zigal. My wife was given a Uncorrected Proof copy of this book by the author himself at the Louisiana Book Festival in 2004. Zigal is known for the Kurt Muller mystery series, but has roots in Louisiana and Texas. This well-written book tells the story of Paul Blanchard, a coffee company executive forced to come to grips with his past as an old frat buddy and "reformed" racist pushes him for support in a campaign for governor. The "White League" of the title was a powerful, white-supremacist organization of New Orleans that effectively ended the Reconstruction in Louisiana in 1874. The question posed by the protagonist and the book is "does the White League still operate today?" (or at least in 1990 when the novel is set). I raced right through this book; it's somewhat similar to a Grisham novel, but without a lawyer hero, and with better depictions of local color.