Robert Ruben­stein has writ­ten a shock­ing sequel to Ghost Run­ners, a Jew­ish Book World BookNote. The White Bridge is his­tor­i­cal fic­tion about racism in Amer­i­ca and its dead­ly con­se­quences. The mur­der of her young friend takes a woman news reporter on a jour­ney over a cross­ing that must be under­tak­en though it rocks the very fab­ric of the Amer­i­can dream.The White Bridge tells all — the Baby Farms, the vig­i­lantes, the hor­ror of lynch­ing and forced ster­il­iza­tions. Not in Ger­many, but here, before Hitler, in places like Lynch­burg, Vir­ginia, or hos­pi­tals in Stock­ton, California.For her, no stone is sacred or unturned, until the final stone is laid in hal­lowed ground when the solu­tion to a mur­der lays bare the best and the worst of Amer­i­ca. Often with hys­ter­i­cal, dark humor, Mr.Rubenstein traces Gin­ger Lee’s trans­for­ma­tion from a quin­tes­sen­tial Amer­i­can flap­per to a woman of dead­ly design. Her cross­ing of The White Bridge will leave you breath­less on a precipice between heav­en and hell.