From â€œone of crime fictionâ€™s most interesting and passionate voicesâ€ (Laura Lippman) comes a new â€œnoir crime classicâ€ (Mystery Ink) about one of the most

Wicked City: A Thriller

From â€œone of crime fictionâ€™s most interesting and passionate voicesâ€ (Laura Lippman) comes a new â€œnoir crime classicâ€ (Mystery Ink) about one of the most notorious towns in American history.
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Â Â Â Â Reviewing White Shadow, the Associated Press wrote, â€œThis book packs the emotional wallop of Dennis Lehaneâ€™s Mystic River. It is as gritty as James Ellroyâ€™s L.A. Confidential. And yet, the prose is as lyrical as James Lee Burkeâ€™s Crusaderâ€™s Cross. With White Shadow, Atkins has found his true voice.â€ And with Phenix City, it is even truer.
Â Â Â Â In 1955, Look magazine called Phenix City, Alabama, â€œThe Wickedest City in America,â€ but even that may have been an understatement. It was a stew of organized crime and corruption, run by a machine that dealt with complaints forcefully and with dispatch. Noone dared cross them â€“ noone even tried. And then the machine killed the wrong man.
Â Â Â Â When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause for just a moment â€“ and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide they have had enough, but what that means and where it will take them is something they could not have foreseen. Over the course of the next several months, lives will change, people die, and unexpected heroes emerge â€“ like â€œa Randolph Scott western,â€ one of them remarks, â€œplayed out not with horses and Winchesters, but with Chevys and .38s and switchblades.â€
Â Â Â Â Peopled by an extraordinary cast of characters, both real and fictional, Wicked City is a novel of uncommon intensity, rich with atmosphere, filled with sensuality and surprise.

Country	USA
Brand	G.P. Putnam's Sons
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
Model	black & white illustrations
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2009-04-07
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
UPCs	071831014993
EANs	9780425227077

Wicked City: A Thriller

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