Summary of Timothy Egan's Breaking Blue

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#1 The former police chief, Bill Parsons, had a first-rate pension and medical plan, but it seemed to amount to nothing more than an open ticket to see more urologists and respiratory therapists. He could not take a breath of cool air.

#2 Chief Bill Parsons, who had kept a secret his entire career, was now so lonely that it sometimes felt like physical pain. He longed for company, but hardly any of his former colleagues came around to visit him.

#3 The man who had stirred Parsons, lighting fires under the dead and the near-dead, lived alone in a decaying three-story brick building about seventy-five miles north of Spokane. He had spent the last year thinking about September 1935.

#4 In 1935, a crime occurred in the wilderness county of Spokane that became known as thecrime of the century. But little was known about it, and Bamonte was looking for people who could shed light on it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822500075

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The former police chief, Bill Parsons, had a first-rate pension and medical plan, but it seemed to amount to nothing more than an open ticket to see more urologists and respiratory therapists. He could not take a breath of cool air.

#2

Chief Bill Parsons, who had kept a secret his entire career, was now so lonely that it sometimes felt like physical pain. He longed for company, but hardly any of his former colleagues came around to visit him.

#3

The man who had stirred Parsons, lighting fires under the dead and the near-dead, lived alone in a decaying three-story brick building about seventy-five miles north of Spokane. He had spent the last year thinking about September 1935.

#4

In 1935, a crime occurred in the wilderness county of Spokane that became known as thecrime of the century. But little was known about it, and Bamonte was looking for people who could shed light on it.

#5

When Bamonte interviewed Parsons, he learned that the police officers stole food, turkeys, radios, and small change. They also took from people they didn’t like, with impunity.

#6

Bill Parsons, the Pend Oreille County sheriff, told Bamonte the story of the 1935 killing. He said that the murder was committed by a member of the police force, and that everyone knew about it.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 1935, the American West and midsection experienced a drought that only God in the foulest of Old Testament moods was capable of causing. The land died, and barely a half-century after the first white farmers cut the ground with plow blades, the earth dried up and gathered itself into amber clouds of airborne dust.

#2

The first farmer families came to the new land in the 1930s, and they were greeted with promises that the land was virtually free and would produce a crop with only a few inches of rain per year. But