The Price You Pay
by Jim Fusilli
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Pub Date Jan 22 2024 | Archive Date Feb 07 2024
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Description
A crime thriller, coming-of-age story and a family saga, THE PRICE YOU PAY is set in mid-1970s in a crumbling New Jersey city where violence and coercion reign. Mickey Wright is thrust into a world controlled by a powerful Teamster local linked to the Genovese crime family. The man who put him in jeopardy: his father, a free-wheeling policeman well-known to the city's politicians and drug dealers.
When a Black trucker is murdered, Mickey must choose between loyalty to family or to values he shares with Debbie Olsen, the love of his young life who is the daughter of a stable, solidly middle-class family. Memorable appearances by Mickey’s sister, who is broken by her father’s foul will, and memories of their late mother haunt the story. The question of whether Mickey can stand tall, break free and live a worthy life of his choosing isn’t answered until a final, shocking confrontation.
Advance Praise
Jim Fusilli has done a lot of good writing in his time, but The Price You Pay is his best book. It’s everything you want urban crime fiction to be: taut, seriously suspenseful, closely ob-served, wry, and very knowing about the way the real world works. I started off admiring the precision of the writing, and then found the pages flying. I was going to say George V. Higgins, the author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle, would have liked this novel. But then again, he might have just been pissed that he didn’t write it himself.
—Peter Blauner, author and screenwriter
With “The Price You Pay,” Jim Fusilli gives us a tough and heartfelt coming of age crime story—gritty, suspenseful, involving. The characters pop and ache and burn. Mickey Wright is memorable.”
-- Meg Gardiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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| ISBN | 9781643963525 |
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