A Poor Wise Man by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook.

Genre: thriller

In a smoke-laden American steel city still reeling from the Great War, Lily Cardew returns home with new eyes. After a year of hard, unglamorous service among soldiers and vulnerable young women, the sheltered rituals of the Cardew mansion feel unreal - and the iron-willed patriarch Anthony Cardew feels more like a judge than a grandfather. Below their hilltop world, the mills grind on, immigrants pour through the station, and the streets buzz with talk of strikes, bombs, and revolution. Lily is drawn to arguments she was never allowed to hear: the bitter logic of the radicals, the slick charm of a union lawyer with dangerous ambitions, and the unsettling influence of her aunt Elinor, long estranged and bound to the notorious Jim Doyle. Caught between family loyalty and a fierce need to be useful, Lily risks her name, her inheritance, and her freedom. Watching from the edge is Willy Cameron, a poor but stubbornly honest young man whose clear-eyed courage places him at the center of a citizen movement - and in Lily's path - just as the city tilts toward upheaval.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:00) Chapter 02

(00:51:42) Chapter 03

(01:21:32) Chapter 04

(01:51:45) Chapter 05

(02:32:18) Chapter 06

(03:07:04) Chapter 07

(03:51:44) Chapter 08

(04:33:06) Chapter 09

(05:13:53) Chapter 10

(05:54:46) Chapter 11

(06:46:46) Chapter 12

(07:24:34) Chapter 13

(07:56:43) Chapter 14

(08:37:56) Chapter 15

(09:15:16) Chapter 16

(09:53:49) Chapter 17

(10:40:07) Chapter 18

(11:15:45) Chapter 19

(11:56:33) Chapter 20

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