Summary
Two years after Cal and Dante destroyed the heart of the Boston Irish mob and splintered the Boston political landscape, everyone is out for themselves and trying to claim a piece of the city.
It’s early summer but already the city is in the grips of a heat wave, which doesn’t help tensions any as the fractures within Boston’s underworld are finding their way to the streets in payback shoot-outs between mobsters and the police. When a body is discovered at the Charlestown locks, tarre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444754322 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444754327 |
| Author: | Douglas Graham Purdy, Thomas O'Malley |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Mulholland Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 27 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 498g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 155mm x 25mm |
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Praise for SERPENTS IN THE COLD - .
Brutally realistic…The authors give us one last, lingering look at the good-bad old days - New York Times Book ReviewThis is a bone-crunching, gut-wrenching novel that captures the atmosphere of a city in decay and its inhabitants. It delivers noir fiction like we always want it to be - Kirkus ReviewsO’Malley and Purdy bring postwar Boston to life, making neighbourhoods feel as distinct as separate countries…They have delivered a love-letter to Boston that’s long gone. - Publishers WeeklyAbout The Author
Douglas Graham Purdy
Thomas O’Malley was raised in Ireland and England. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and currently teaches on the faculty of creative writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of the novels In the Province of Saints and This Magnificent Desolation. He lives in the Boston area.
Douglas Graham Purdy grew up in the Boston area. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Boston and worked in Film & Media Studies at MIT. This is his first novel.
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