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About the Author:
Thomas O'Malley is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and currently teaches on the faculty of creative writing at Dartmouth College. He lives in the Boston area.
Douglas Graham Purdy is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Boston and currently works in Film & Media Studies at MIT. This is his second novel.
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Douglas Graham Purdy is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Boston and currently works in Film & Media Studies at MIT. This is his second novel.
"Well-written . . . Written with verve . . . Strikingly visual with a very readable style."―Benjamin Boulden, Mystery Scene
"This brilliant second entry in the Boston Saga sizzles . . . This stunning narrative will enrapture fans of James Crumley and the astonishingly deep and dark Sara Gran."―Booklist (starred review)
"The authors deliver noir done well in dark-city descriptions and a cast of damaged characters."―Kirkus Reviews
PRAISE FOR SERPENTS IN THE COLD:
"In the best noir tradition, these co-authors shine a smoky light on lives often lived in the shadows."―Carol Iaciofano, WBUR
"Like Sara Gran's Dope, Serpents in the Cold lovingly revisits the hardboiled noir. From the dives of Dorchester to the Locke-Ober Café, John Garfield and Richard Widmark would feel right at home in O'Malley and Purdy's bygone, fallen Boston."―Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset
"This brilliant second entry in the Boston Saga sizzles . . . This stunning narrative will enrapture fans of James Crumley and the astonishingly deep and dark Sara Gran."―Booklist (starred review)
"The authors deliver noir done well in dark-city descriptions and a cast of damaged characters."―Kirkus Reviews
PRAISE FOR SERPENTS IN THE COLD:
"In the best noir tradition, these co-authors shine a smoky light on lives often lived in the shadows."―Carol Iaciofano, WBUR
"Like Sara Gran's Dope, Serpents in the Cold lovingly revisits the hardboiled noir. From the dives of Dorchester to the Locke-Ober Café, John Garfield and Richard Widmark would feel right at home in O'Malley and Purdy's bygone, fallen Boston."―Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Two years after Cal and Dante destroyed the heart of the Boston Irish mob and splintered the Boston political landscape, everyone is out for themselves and trying to claim a piece of the city. It's early summer but already the city is in the grips of a heat wave, which doesn't help tensions any as the fractures within Boston's underworld are finding their way to the streets in payback shoot-outs between mobsters and the police. When a body is discovered at the Charlestown locks, tarred and feathered and shot, it appears to be a gangland killing, and almost immediately dismissed. But Cal's cousin, detective Owen Lackey, who intended to intercept a boat coming into Boston weighed down with stolen guns and ammunition, recognises the murder as typical retribution for IRA informers and knows that with this murder there may be much more at stake than his superiors realise. Keen to uncover those responsible, he asks Cal and Dante to help search the Irish-American enclaves of Dudley Square, Dorchester and South Boston for some sign of the killers. It is a journey that will take them into the shadowy parts of Boston, a world of packed dance halls, Irish wakes and funeral parlors, of down-and-out immigrant rooming houses, bars, and secret meeting halls, and, ultimately, to the discovery of a terrorist plot that will shake the city to its core and bring them head-to-head not only with Cal's past but with the IRA Army Council itself. Tension is rising in 1950s Boston. gangs and terrorists compete for the city in this compelling historical noir. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781444754322
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