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Payback

Payback

by ThomasKelly (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $4.48

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    Hardcover 1997

    $3.30
Synopsis

Billy Adare is a law student building tunnels to save the money to see him through college. His brother, Paddy, works as a bagman/enforcer for an Irish neighbourhood gang which is in turn used by the local mafia chieftan as a sub-contractor. Trouble arises when the mafia is brought in by a construction company to help break the tunnel workers union, and delegates the task to their Irish associates. Punctuated with acts of betrayal, viciousness and vengeance on both sides, the plot moves inexorably towards a final brutal confrontation.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 02 Mar 1998
ISBN 10: 0752815571
ISBN 13: 9780752815572
Book Overview: * 'Thomas Kelly is one of the most powerful new writers since the debut of Donna Tartt. The book is brilliant, savage and graceful all at once'. Pat Conroy

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.