by Thomas Kelly
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'Stylish, pacey thriller.'
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'This is tough-guy prose in overdrive, which moves effortlessly from union halls to the morally ambiguous world of Irish racketeers, Italian mobsters and Russian mafia hitmen, from the concrete and steel horizon of Manhattan's half-built skyscrapers to a twilight world familiar to fans of Martin Scorsese movies. This is a stylish, innovative thriller that shines like a dark sun over the often repetitive landscape of today's crime fiction.' (Maxim Jakubowski THE GUARDIAN (8.11.03) )
'...the flowerless, stark prose also works in a female cop, a gun nut and a richly drawn parade of hoodlums and hardcases to lend this restless, churning story a beating, if poisoned, heart.' (Andrew Emery JACK (November) )
'For any Raymond Chandler fans, there are several great Chandleresque moments...THE RACKETS is a fine thriller.' (Dan MacCarthy IRISH EXAMINER (25.10.03) )
'Jimmy Dolan's adventure certainly treads a path familiar to the author...He [Kelly] knows the territory well and some of the novel's set pieces present the strongest sections of the book.' (Frank Shouldice IRISH INDEPENDENT (1.11.03) )
'Stylish, pacey thriller.' (The Bookseller )
'Kelly does a nice job of blending a violent thriller with the mixed emotions that accompany a disappearing way of life.' (SUNDAY MERCURY (Birmingham, 12.10.03) )
'Muscular retro-fiction, which last made waves stylistically in the late Thirties and early Forties, is brought rousingly up to date with this appraisal of mobsters and corrupt union bosses mauling the construction industry in present-day New York...Inspirational when you least expect it and all the better for its bare-knuckled prose. Reminiscent of Aben Kandel's fine Forties novel, City for Conquest. Is social realism gearing up for a revival?' (LITERARY REVIEW (December 2003) )
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'Stylish, pacey thriller.'
Review
'This is tough-guy prose in overdrive, which moves effortlessly from union halls to the morally ambiguous world of Irish racketeers, Italian mobsters and Russian mafia hitmen, from the concrete and steel horizon of Manhattan's half-built skyscrapers to a twilight world familiar to fans of Martin Scorsese movies. This is a stylish, innovative thriller that shines like a dark sun over the often repetitive landscape of today's crime fiction.' (Maxim Jakubowski THE GUARDIAN (8.11.03) )
'...the flowerless, stark prose also works in a female cop, a gun nut and a richly drawn parade of hoodlums and hardcases to lend this restless, churning story a beating, if poisoned, heart.' (Andrew Emery JACK (November) )
'For any Raymond Chandler fans, there are several great Chandleresque moments...THE RACKETS is a fine thriller.' (Dan MacCarthy IRISH EXAMINER (25.10.03) )
'Jimmy Dolan's adventure certainly treads a path familiar to the author...He [Kelly] knows the territory well and some of the novel's set pieces present the strongest sections of the book.' (Frank Shouldice IRISH INDEPENDENT (1.11.03) )
'Stylish, pacey thriller.' (The Bookseller )
'Kelly does a nice job of blending a violent thriller with the mixed emotions that accompany a disappearing way of life.' (SUNDAY MERCURY (Birmingham, 12.10.03) )
'Muscular retro-fiction, which last made waves stylistically in the late Thirties and early Forties, is brought rousingly up to date with this appraisal of mobsters and corrupt union bosses mauling the construction industry in present-day New York...Inspirational when you least expect it and all the better for its bare-knuckled prose. Reminiscent of Aben Kandel's fine Forties novel, City for Conquest. Is social realism gearing up for a revival?' (LITERARY REVIEW (December 2003) )
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Days like this Jimmy Dolan figured he had the best job in the world. Read the first page
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