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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.
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Two Trains Running - Advance Reader's Edition, Andrew H. Vachss
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2005
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- État du livre
- Abîmé
- Prix
- 1,81 €
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Andrew H. Vachss
- Éditeur
- Pantheon Books
- Publié
- 2005
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 447
- ISBN10
- 1400043816
- ISBN13
- 9781400043811
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Polars & Thrillers, Polars, Thriller, Politique, Suspense, États-Unis, Noir, Crime organisé
- Évaluation
- 3,7 sur 5
- Description
- 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.