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In his most original and compelling book yet, Andrew Vachss presents an electrifying tale of corruption in a devastated mill town. It is 1959--a moment in history when the clandestine, powerful forces that will shape America to the present day are about to collide.Walker Dett is a hired gun, known for using the most extreme measures to accomplish his missions. Royal Beaumont is the "hillbilly boss" who turned Locke City from a dying town into a thriving vice capital. But organized crime outsiders are moving in on Beaumont's turf, so he reaches out for Dett in a high-risk move to maintain his power at all costs. Add a rival Irish political machine, a deeply entrenched neo-Nazi "party", the nascent black power movement, turf-disputing juvenile gangs, a muck-raking journalist who doubles as a blackmailer, the FBI--a covert observer and occasional participant which may itself be under surveillance-- and Locke City is about as stable as a nitroglycerin truck stalled on the railroad tracks. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Acquisto del libro
Two Trains Running - Advance Reader's Edition, Andrew H. Vachss
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2005
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- (Copertina rigida),
- Condizioni del libro
- Danneggiato
- Prezzo
- 0,21 €
Metodi di pagamento
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Andrew H. Vachss
- Editore
- Pantheon Books
- Pubblicato
- 2005
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 447
- ISBN10
- 1400043816
- ISBN13
- 9781400043811
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Gialli & Thriller, Gialli, Thriller, Politica, Tensione, USA, Noir, Crimine Organizzato
- Valutazione
- 3,7 su 5
- Descrizione
- In his most original and compelling book yet, Andrew Vachss presents an electrifying tale of corruption in a devastated mill town. It is 1959--a moment in history when the clandestine, powerful forces that will shape America to the present day are about to collide.Walker Dett is a hired gun, known for using the most extreme measures to accomplish his missions. Royal Beaumont is the "hillbilly boss" who turned Locke City from a dying town into a thriving vice capital. But organized crime outsiders are moving in on Beaumont's turf, so he reaches out for Dett in a high-risk move to maintain his power at all costs. Add a rival Irish political machine, a deeply entrenched neo-Nazi "party", the nascent black power movement, turf-disputing juvenile gangs, a muck-raking journalist who doubles as a blackmailer, the FBI--a covert observer and occasional participant which may itself be under surveillance-- and Locke City is about as stable as a nitroglycerin truck stalled on the railroad tracks. From the Trade Paperback edition.