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Still living on the Lower East Side and waiting tables in a restaurant, thirty-five-year-old Eric Cash has every reason in the world to be jealous of Ike Marcus, a handsome, well-liked, ambitious young man on the way to the top, until he is supposedly gunned down by two street thugs while walking one night with Eric. By the author of Clockers.

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Farrar Straus & Giroux
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4 Mar. 2008
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16.74 x 4.1 x 22.5 cm
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Richard Price is the author of seven novels, including Clockers,Freedomland, and Samaritan. He won a 2007 Edgar Award for his writing on the HBO seriesThe Wire.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar Straus & Giroux; 1st edition (4 Mar. 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 455 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374299250
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374299255
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.74 x 4.1 x 22.5 cm

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Compelling police procedural

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 16 October 2009

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Sparkling dialogue throughout. The interrogation scene was compelling as Cash moved from key witness to prime suspect. This section should be compulsory reading for anyone arguing against the presence of lawyers.

The description of New York was shocking and believable; the day to day drugs, guns, violence, respect and fashion. It was so much more than, for example, Mr Pelecanos' A-Z travel guides. Loved his description of the street gang feigning innocence by, 'turning their eyes skyward as if posing for a religious painting' when challenged by the police.

The characters were not entirely sympathetic, even the 'doe-eyed' Yolanda, but they were convincing. I cheered for the Quality of Life cops and hoped that Matty Clark's attraction for the victim's stepmother would bear fruit. The writing is witty and quirky. It was one of the best police procedurals that I have read - so why not five stars?

The problem is the first thirty pages. It is as though Mr Price has to throw his medals on the table and demonstrate his street-cred to the new reader. He jumps about, writing with patois and a lippy glibness that I scan read and nearly closed the book on. It is so bewildering that even in the text one street kid has to ask another what a 'dolgier' is? Even the characters were baffled! I did persevere and re-read the first thirty pages bit by bit later.

Will look for more from this author.

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Victor Serge

Not a single likeable character but still a good read.

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A bunch of really well written entertaining snippets with a very loose plot and in the end the book didn't mean much but it was still it was a 'good read' perfect for bus journeys

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Rita

Great read! But main theme defies credibility.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 January 2009

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Well, there are two companions with the man who is shot dead by someone unknown. NYPD interview one; don't accept his story, and within hours, charge him with the crime and lock him up. Then, AND ONLY THEN, do they think to interview the second companion, who unhesitatingly confirms the other's recollection of events and he is immediately released from prison, severely traumatised, with grovelling apologies for false arrest. So, if you can overlook this unbelievable basis for the next 400 or so pages, with NYPD now trying to find the real killer, you should enjoy this book, as I did. But of course, with this perpetual niggle concerning plausability.

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Peter Smith

No place to visit.

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A very clever police procedural novel. The plot switches between various characters, robbers/murderers, witnesses, bystanders and police officers. And the dialogue seems authentic millenium New Yorkese, Its an easy read and the author keeps a good pace throughout. Its biggest weakness is the lack of any likeable characters in the piece. Its a very modern take on a dystopian city where the values of everyone involved seem relentlessly selfish. Not a place to visit except in a novel.

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Cyprian DeCoteau

Always worth reading!

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Expectedly pacy. But Original story kept everything at a Steady momentum!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 April 2015

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Tiresome. Uses the word "palmed" to mean "touched" on virtually every page. Sometimes more than once. Palm this book and find out that it's true. I also struggled to understand many paragraphs, as I'm not a hipster or an idiot. It had potential, good plotting, tiresome narrating. Next book in Clear English please.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 April 2017

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A long slog of a book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 21 March 2010

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I found it really hard to finish this book - although it could be that it was not the genre I prefer as I was reading it for a book club.
I found the characters hard to like, and in some cases hard to remember! I found the plot tedious and although the quality of the writing was fantastic and descriptive, I found the area of New York that the book was set in a bit stale and overworked.

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