It is 1940 and a tragedy has just occurred outside Tiffin, Iowa. After a bloody collarbone, pieces of flesh, and garments are found on the railroad tracks, local police learn that Finn Fletcher, an eighteen-year-old American Indian psychiatric patient, has escaped from the hospital. Moments later, a bank in Iowa City is robbed. Then Came the Dawn shares the gripping tale of a missing American Indian teenager and the Iowa police detective determined to find him.
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