Payback - Hardcover

Kelly, Thomas

 
9780679450511: Payback
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679450513 ISBN 13: 9780679450511
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

As an internecine mob war rages for control of the construction rackets of Hell's Kitchen, the Adare brothers--Paddy, a mob henchman, and Billy, on his way to law school--find their loyalties to family, friends, neighborhood, and each other put to the test. A first novel. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas Kelly was born and raised in New Jersey.  He worked in a wide variety of construction jobs as a teenager, and was a sandhog while attending Fordham University. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in political economy, he went on to earn a Master's degree in public administration from Harvard University.<br><br>Since the early 1980s, Kelly has been active in local and national politics through labor unions. He worked as a political operative for the Teamsters Union, as a New York State special events planner for the Clinton campaign, as Director of Advance for the David Dinkins campaign, and as Political Director for the Cuomo campaign. He also ran a nonprofit organization for trade unions.<br><br>Kelly is 35 years old and lives in New York City.  <b>Payback</b> is his first nov

Aus dem Klappentext

building boom of the 1980s galvanizes the construction rackets, both the Mafia and the feds stake out territory in New York City's eternally explosive Hell's Kitchen, longtime turf of the Irish mob.<br><br>At the center of the story: two Irish brothers, Paddy and Billy Adare. One is an enforcer for the mob. The other, about to enter law school, works as a sandhog in the tunnels below Manhattan. Important to each other since childhood, they are caught in a crossfire of greed and savage violence that puts their loyalties -- to family, neighborhood, and each other -- to a brutal test.

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679450513
ISBN 13 
9780679450511
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
273
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