The Third Degree

“I’m N. G.—that’s a cinch!” Howard Jeffries mutters as Broadway’s noon crowds stream around him, hungry and hurried. He has a jobless day behind him, almost no money in his pocket, and no courage to face Annie.

In early twentieth-century New York, the city’s busy streets brim with workers who seem to know how to get on. Howard, a Yale graduate raised with every advantage, watches them from the shadows: he has failed to find work, broken his promise to stop drinking, and begun to believe his weakness was written into him from birth. But his excuses cannot feed him or repair the life he shares with Annie. As the past that led him here comes into view, how much longer can Howard blame his troubles on everyone but himself?

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