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The Rackets

The Rackets

by ThomasKelly (Author)

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    Hardcover 2003

    $3.45

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    Paperback 2004

    $3.45
Synopsis

Jimmy Dolan, onetime roughneck construction worker, is now an Ivy League-educated advance man for New York City's mayor. When he strikes out against a corrupt union boss at a power breakfast, he is fired. Meanwhile, Jimmy's father is running for president of the Teamsters. He is brutally muscled out of the race, so Jimmy must risk his life and return to the working-class world he left behind. Set in the union halls, taverns and half-built skyscrapers of a Manhattan, populated by Irish racketeers, Italian mobsters and Russian killers, The Rackets is a fast-paced literary thriller that paints a vivid portrait of an urban underworld rarely seen in fiction.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 09 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 0297847309
ISBN 13: 9780297847304
Book Overview: Brings to life the underbelly of New York Universally acclaimed on US publication 'In the space of two books, Tom Kelly has managed to stake out a whole literary acreage for himself; urban, dynamic, political and intensely heartfelt. He writes tough, clean, fearsome prose that somehow still manages to hear the music in the far reaches of the human soul.' Colum McCann

Media Reviews
Set in New York in the 1930s, a novel full of the union halls, taverns and skyscrapers of Manhattan, where racketeers and mobsters thrive. The story opens with Jimmy Dolan, who works for the Mayor of New York City, arguing with Frankie Keefe, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 383, and knocking him down at a breakfast shindig. Jimmy's career is therefore well and truly over, and he ends up risking his life supporting his father, who is fighting Keefe in an election for president of the Teamsters. Keefe is a corrupt individual, who will certainly fight dirty, so battle is soon joined. It is a fast-moving thriller which brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the New York of the period.
Author Bio
Thomas Kelly worked for ten years in construction, graduated from Fordham University and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, then served as Director of Advance for the mayor of New York. A former Teamster, he writes for Esquire. His first novel, PAYBACK, has been adapted by David Mamet for a feature film. He lives in New York and Dublin.