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The Efficiency Expert
College athlete Jimmy Torrance arrives in Chicago confident that education and energy will quickly produce a career, only to discover how difficult respectable employment can be. His friendships cross class lines and include people on the edge of the criminal world, while a factory job, romance and a murder accusation test his ability to make a place for himself.
Chicago in 1921 provides a vivid setting of factories, job hunting, class mobility and post-war economic uncertainty. Jimmy's confidence is tested by employers, criminals and social prejudice, turning the mystery plot into a broader story about the difficulty of translating education and ambition into a stable place in modern urban life.
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