- The
- author
- of
- Blitz
- and
- the
- author
- of
- the
- Jesse
- Stone
- novels
- collaborate
- on
- a
- “rough
- and
- profane
- read”
- about
- two
- childhood
- friends
- who
- become
- criminals
- (Daniel
- Woodrell).Nick’s
- Irish-American
- father,
- a
- Brooklyn
- rent-a-cop
- working
- security
- in
- the
- World
- Trade
- Center’s
- North
- Tower,
- named
- him
- after
- a
- Hemingway
- hero.
- The
- old
- man
- must
- have
- been
- expecting
- a
- different
- kind
- of
- kid.
- Because,
- like
- the
- R&B
- song
- says,
- Nick
- was
- born
- under
- a
- bad
- sign.
- As
- aimless
- as
- a
- stray
- bullet,
- his
- only
- constants
- are
- ’Nam
- movies,
- pulp
- novels,
- and
- an
- unquestioning
- devotion
- to
- his
- childhood
- friend,
- Todd,
- a
- Jewish
- New
- York
- con
- artist
- with
- connections
- to
- the
- Boston
- mob.When
- Todd
- inducts
- Nick
- into
- his
- world
- of
- petty
- crime,
- it
- starts
- with
- reckless
- fun—scoring
- weed,
- low-level
- stings,
- and
- burglary.
- But
- the
- deeper
- they
- sink
- into
- the
- world
- of
- the
- syndicate,
- the
- more
- they
- realize
- how
- unknowable
- a
- friend
- can
- be,
- and
- how
- unprepared
- they
- are
- to
- rescue
- themselves,
- and
- their
- souls,
- from
- the
- gutter.Alternately
- telling
- this
- “brutally
- poetic”
- story
- from
- the
- perspectives
- of
- Nick
- and
- Todd,
- award-winning
- “noir
- masters”
- Ken
- Bruen
- and
- Reed
- Farrel
- Colemen
- “shine,
- dropping
- in-jokes,
- experimenting
- and
- displaying
- all
- the
- literary
- chops
- that
- have
- made
- their
- novels
- such
- cult
- favorites
- among
- mystery
- fans”
- (Publishers Weekly).
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