The Rackets
by Thomas Kelly
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Pub Date Mar 06 2012 | Archive Date Jun 26 2013
Open Road Integrated Media | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Description
Fired from the mayor’s office, a political flack ends up in his old neighborhood, with a newly dangerous mission
Jimmy Dolan should have known better than to shove Frankie Keefe. Keefe may be scum—a corrupt teamster president who’s looking forward to crushing Jimmy’s father in the next union election—but Jimmy is the mayor’s right hand man, and kowtowing to scum is his job. After hearing one too many cracks about his father, Jimmy shoves the union boss onto the floor, in full view of some of the city’s most powerful people. In a flash, Jimmy’s career is finished.
He returns to Inwood, in the wilds of north Manhattan, to pick up the pieces. But when his father is murdered, Jimmy takes up the old man’s campaign against Frankie Keefe. It may be suicide, but he’s got nothing else to lose. After years in City Hall, Jimmy Dolan is about to learn how ugly New York politics can get.
Jimmy Dolan should have known better than to shove Frankie Keefe. Keefe may be scum—a corrupt teamster president who’s looking forward to crushing Jimmy’s father in the next union election—but Jimmy is the mayor’s right hand man, and kowtowing to scum is his job. After hearing one too many cracks about his father, Jimmy shoves the union boss onto the floor, in full view of some of the city’s most powerful people. In a flash, Jimmy’s career is finished.
He returns to Inwood, in the wilds of north Manhattan, to pick up the pieces. But when his father is murdered, Jimmy takes up the old man’s campaign against Frankie Keefe. It may be suicide, but he’s got nothing else to lose. After years in City Hall, Jimmy Dolan is about to learn how ugly New York politics can get.
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Advance Praise
“The suspense holds to the end, and the novel draws readers deep
into a gritty, wholly convincing world of late-20th-century union halls
and construction sites. . . . A strong second effort.” —Publishers Weekly
“The Rackets is not just a well-paced, violent thriller or an insider’s look at construction unions—it’s an elegy for the city’s old Irish working class, and even for its tangled, unavoidable dealings with the Mafia. It’s a song, in other words, for two of the city’s old tribes, who eventually, or soon, will disappear.” —The New York Times
“The Rackets is not just a well-paced, violent thriller or an insider’s look at construction unions—it’s an elegy for the city’s old Irish working class, and even for its tangled, unavoidable dealings with the Mafia. It’s a song, in other words, for two of the city’s old tribes, who eventually, or soon, will disappear.” —The New York Times
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781453247341 |
| PRICE | $9.99 (USD) |
