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Author: Ace Atkins; Paul Cartwright Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, ©2008.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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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.
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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.

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