Atkins's sixth and best novel…he's too young to have known Phenix City in its glory days, but he has done extensive research to give us a painfully realistic picture of just how ugly and corrupt the city had become…It's a vile story, well told. Atkins nicely summons up the 1950s South and keeps us guessing as to whether vice or virtue will triumph in Phenix City.
The Washington Post
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series comes a “noir crime classic” (Mystery Ink) about one of the most notorious towns in American history.
When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City, Alabama, alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause for just a moment-and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide they have had enough, but what that
means and where it will take them is something they could not have foreseen. Over the course of the next several months, lives will change, people die, and unexpected heroes emerge-like “a Randolph Scott western,” one of them remarks, “played out not with horses and Winchesters, but with Chevys and .38s
and switchblades.”
Peopled by an extraordinary cast of characters, both real and fictional, Wicked City is a novel of uncommon intensity, rich with atmosphere, filled with sensuality and surprise.
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When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City, Alabama, alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause for just a moment-and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide they have had enough, but what that
means and where it will take them is something they could not have foreseen. Over the course of the next several months, lives will change, people die, and unexpected heroes emerge-like “a Randolph Scott western,” one of them remarks, “played out not with horses and Winchesters, but with Chevys and .38s
and switchblades.”
Peopled by an extraordinary cast of characters, both real and fictional, Wicked City is a novel of uncommon intensity, rich with atmosphere, filled with sensuality and surprise.
Wicked City
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series comes a “noir crime classic” (Mystery Ink) about one of the most notorious towns in American history.
When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City, Alabama, alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause for just a moment-and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide they have had enough, but what that
means and where it will take them is something they could not have foreseen. Over the course of the next several months, lives will change, people die, and unexpected heroes emerge-like “a Randolph Scott western,” one of them remarks, “played out not with horses and Winchesters, but with Chevys and .38s
and switchblades.”
Peopled by an extraordinary cast of characters, both real and fictional, Wicked City is a novel of uncommon intensity, rich with atmosphere, filled with sensuality and surprise.
When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City, Alabama, alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause for just a moment-and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide they have had enough, but what that
means and where it will take them is something they could not have foreseen. Over the course of the next several months, lives will change, people die, and unexpected heroes emerge-like “a Randolph Scott western,” one of them remarks, “played out not with horses and Winchesters, but with Chevys and .38s
and switchblades.”
Peopled by an extraordinary cast of characters, both real and fictional, Wicked City is a novel of uncommon intensity, rich with atmosphere, filled with sensuality and surprise.
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Product Details
BN ID: | 2940192485903 |
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Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
Publication date: | 10/08/2024 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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