TY - BOOK AU - Franzen,Jonathan TI - The twenty-seventh city SN - 125004670X PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Police KW - Missouri KW - Saint Louis KW - Fiction N1 - "Picador Modern Classics." N2 - St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. Set in mid-1980s, The Twenty-Seventh City predicts every unsettling shift in American life for the next two decades: suburban malaise, surveillance culture, domestic terrorism, paranoia ER -