Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Genre/Form: | Suspense fiction Noir fiction Historical fiction Thrillers (Fiction) Fiction |
---|---|
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ace Atkins; Paul Cartwright Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries) |
ISBN: | 9780399154577 0399154574 9780425227077 0425227073 |
OCLC Number: | 163614125 |
Description: | 336 pages ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Ace Atkins. |
More information: |
Abstract:
It was a stew of organized crime and corruption, run by a machine that dealt with complaints forcefully and with dispatch. No one dared cross them-no one even tried. And then the machine killed the wrong man. 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 just for a moment-and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide that 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 will die, and unexpected heroes will emerge-like "a Randolph Scott western," one of them remarks, played out not with horses and Winchesters but with Chevys and .38s and switchblades.
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.


Tags
Add tags for "Wicked city".
All user tags (1)
View most popular tags as: tag list
| tag cloud
View most popular tags as:
tag list
| tag cloud
- fr tom books (by 2 people)
- 2 items are tagged withfr tom books
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(7)
- Alabama -- Fiction.
- City and town life -- Alabama -- Fiction.
- Alabama.
- Murder.
- Organized crime -- Fiction.
- Police corruption -- Fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
User lists with this item (3)
- Fr. Tom Books - VU Library(373 items)
by ViterboLibrary updated 2014-10-09
- Things to Check Out(99 items)
by chasidar updated 2010-04-01
- books i've read(66 items)
by bennydabeats updated 2010-02-01