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Wicked city

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 just for a moment- and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide that they have had enough, bu...

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Main Author: Atkins, Ace
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2008.
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Alabama > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Alabama.
Noir fiction.
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Summary: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 just for a moment- and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide that 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 will die, and unexpected heroes will emerge-like "a Randolph Scott western," one of them remarks, "played out not with horses and Winchesters but with Chevys and .38s and switchblades."--From publisher description.
Physical Description:336 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780399154577
0399154574
Author Notes:Ace Atkins was a correspondent for The St. Petersburg Times and a crime reporter for The Tampa Tribune. He received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a feature series based on his investigation into a forgotten murder of the 1950s. The story became the core of his novel White Shadow. He is the author of approximately 20 books including The Ranger, The Lost Ones, and Lullaby.

In 2011, he was selected by the Robert B. Parker estate to continue the adventures of Boston's private eye, Spenser. His books include Robert B. Parker's Wonderland, Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot, and Robert B. Parker's Kickback.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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