The Easiest Way

The theaters empty onto Broadway, and New York’s midnight crowd surges toward champagne, bright lights and danger. In a café where the music is “sensuous” and the smiles come at a price, Dakota-born John Madison gets his first close look at the city’s gilded vice.

In early twentieth-century Manhattan, the Great White Way glitters after dark—and its all-night cafés draw pleasure-seekers, gamblers and young women selling their beauty. John, a newly arrived reporter with a country boy’s clear-eyed sense of right and wrong, is there with worldly Glenn Warner. Their talk turns to Laura Murdock, an actress whose charm and ambition draw John into a life far removed from the clean, open world he knows. As Laura tries to make a respectable future for herself, the city’s easier paths may prove the most costly. What will John see in Laura—and what will it ask of them both?

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