Tower: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- The author of Blitz and the author of the Jesse Stone novels collaborate on a &“rough and profane read&” about two childhood friends who become criminals (Daniel Woodrell). Nick&’s Irish-American father, a Brooklyn rent-a-cop working security in the World Trade Center&’s North Tower, named him after a Hemingway hero. The old man must have been expecting a different kind of kid. Because, like the R&B song says, Nick was born under a bad sign. As aimless as a stray bullet, his only constants are &’Nam movies, pulp novels, and an unquestioning devotion to his childhood friend, Todd, a Jewish New York con artist with connections to the Boston mob. When Todd inducts Nick into his world of petty crime, it starts with reckless fun—scoring weed, low-level stings, and burglary. But the deeper they sink into the world of the syndicate, the more they realize how unknowable a friend can be, and how unprepared they are to rescue themselves, and their souls, from the gutter. Alternately telling this &“brutally poetic&” story from the perspectives of Nick and Todd, award-winning &“noir masters&” Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Colemen &“shine, dropping in-jokes, experimenting and displaying all the literary chops that have made their novels such cult favorites among mystery fans&” (Publishers Weekly).
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 172 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781480405943
- Publisher:
- MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
- Date of Addition:
- 09/15/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Ken Bruen & Reed Farrel Coleman
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.