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Follow Shorty McCabe, a wisecracking railway man navigating corporate corruption and personal loyalty in the industrial age, as Ford captures the voice of working America with sharp humor and unexpected depth. His clever schemes often expose larger truths about ambition and integrity.

A humorous novel set in New York during the First World War. Torchy and his wife Vee try to help Marion Gray, who lives under the pressure of her late father's expectations, by setting her up in a meal delivery business, with some romance hinted along the way.