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Tom & Lucky and George & Cokey Flo
C. Joseph Greaves
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Description for Tom & Lucky and George & Cokey Flo
Hardback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 40. Weight in Grams: 798.
FINALIST FOR THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL FICTION 2016 FINALIST FOR THE MACAVITY AWARD 2016 The year is 1936. Charles `Lucky' Luciano is the most powerful gangster in America, Mob overlord and bootlegger millionaire. Thomas E. Dewey is an ambitious young prosecutor determined to bring him down, and Cokey Flo Brown - grifter, heroin addict and sometime prostitute - is the witness who claims she can do it. Only a wily defence attorney named George Morton Levy stands between Lucky and a life behind bars, and between Dewey and ... Read more
FINALIST FOR THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL FICTION 2016 FINALIST FOR THE MACAVITY AWARD 2016 The year is 1936. Charles `Lucky' Luciano is the most powerful gangster in America, Mob overlord and bootlegger millionaire. Thomas E. Dewey is an ambitious young prosecutor determined to bring him down, and Cokey Flo Brown - grifter, heroin addict and sometime prostitute - is the witness who claims she can do it. Only a wily defence attorney named George Morton Levy stands between Lucky and a life behind bars, and between Dewey and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408868997
SKU
V9781408868997
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About C. Joseph Greaves
C. Joseph Greaves is a former L.A. trial lawyer now living in Colorado. His first novel, Hard Twisted, was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in Fiction and was named Best Historical Novel in the SouthWest Writers' International Writing Contest, in which Greaves was also honoured with the grand prize Storyteller Award. Writing as Chuck Greaves, he is a ... Read more
Reviews for Tom & Lucky and George & Cokey Flo
A fast-paced collection of set-piece chapters that infuse popular-history with the wild energy of a 1930s Warner Bros. crime-movie. The novel's prose-style shifts in tune to the events it chronicles, and we watch the protagonists change (if not quite grow), through experience and necessity, from youthful types into archetypes
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