Dodgers by Bill Beverly
When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip - straight down the middle of white, rural America - to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin. Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys - including his trigger-happy...
Dodgers does not disappoint and marks the coming of a master storyteller -- Matt Bates (WH Smith Travel) * The Bookseller *
A masterpiece * Michael Redhill *
This is - quite simply - one of the best books I've read in a VERY long timeMy hat's off to Bill Beverly for this tremendous achievement -- Don Winslow, author of The Cartel
Bill Beverly has crafted a piece of work that is nothing short of masterful... The book took my breath away -- Dirk Robertson * Criminal Element *
Violent, insightful and beautifully written -- Paul Connelly * Metro *
A masterpiece * Michael Redhill *
This is - quite simply - one of the best books I've read in a VERY long timeMy hat's off to Bill Beverly for this tremendous achievement -- Don Winslow, author of The Cartel
Bill Beverly has crafted a piece of work that is nothing short of masterful... The book took my breath away -- Dirk Robertson * Criminal Element *
Violent, insightful and beautifully written -- Paul Connelly * Metro *
Bill Beverly was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He studied literature and writing at Oberlin College, including time in London studying theatre and the Industrial Revolution. He then studied fiction and pursued a Ph.D. in American literature at the University of Florida. His research on criminal fugitives and the stories surrounding them became the book On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America. He now teaches American literature and writing at Trinity University in Washington D.C. and lives with his wife, the poet and writer Deborah Ager, and their daughter Olive, in Hyattsville, Maryland. He collects beer cans. Dodgers is his debut novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843447788 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843447789 |
| Title | Dodgers |
| Author | Bill Beverly |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Year published | 2016-12-08 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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