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Later in the story he finds out his brother sold his soul to the devil and has. The devil in the white city by erik larson overdrive rakuten. In the devil in the white city, the smoke, romance, and mystery of the gilded age come alive as never before. Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized americas rush toward the twentieth century.
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