Dodgers: Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Fiction 2016, and the Crime Writers Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger 2016 - Softcover

Beverly, Bill

 
9781843447788: Dodgers: Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Fiction 2016, and the Crime Writers Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger 2016
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1843447789 ISBN 13: 9781843447788
Verlag: Faber & Faber, London, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin. Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys leave the only home they ve ever known in a nondescript blue van, with a roll of cash, a map and a gun they shouldn t have. Along the way, the country surprises East. The blood on his hands isn't the blood he expects. And he reaches places where only he can decide which way to go - or which person to become.

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Bill Beverly was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He studied literature and writing at Oberlin College, including time in London studying theatre and the Industrial Revolution. He then studied fiction and pursued a Ph.D. in American literature at the University of Florida. His research on criminal fugitives and the stories surrounding them became the book On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America. He now teaches American literature and writing at Trinity University in Washington D.C. and lives with his wife, the poet and writer Deborah Ager, and their daughter Olive, in Hyattsville, Maryland. He collects beer cans. Dodgers is his debut novel.

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When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip - straight down the middle of white, rural America - to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin. Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys - including his trigger-happy...

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Verlag
Faber & Faber, London
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1843447789
ISBN 13 
9781843447788
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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