New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Bloomsbury 2003 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Bloomsbury JULY-SEPT 2003

Jerome Charyn Blue Eyes (The Isaac Quartet) Pbk published July 2003 by Bloomsbury at £6.99 ISBN: 0747563594
Artwork by: Cover: AB3 Design. Illustration: Helen Banks

Manfred 'Blue Eyes' Coen is a cop on loan to the First Deputy's office, sent to the mean streets of his old Bronx neighbourhood to do some very dirty business. Child brides are being kidnapped and are turning up in Mexico, and the daughter of a millionaire has gone missing. Are Coen's childhood friends, the Guzmanns, the key to this mystery? Coen's mentor, the disgraced First Deputy, Isaac Sidel, knew that there was only one man for the job. So, caught between his childhood loyalties and his reputation as the toughest, sharpest cop in New York City, it's up to Blue Eyes to solve the case. But too many people are double-crossing him - and too many people want him dead. Set in a shocking New York underworld populated by a constellation of punks, low lifes, thugs, nymphs, vice lords and bag men, Blue Eyes is the second book in Jerome Charyn's classic Isaac Quartet.

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Jerome Charyn Marilyn the Wild Pbk published July 2003 by Bloomsbury at £6.99 ISBN: 0747563608

(The Isaac Quartet)



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Jonathan Van Meter The Last Good Time: Skinny D'Amato the Notorious 500 Club Published July 2003 by Bloomsbury at £16.99 ISBN: 0747559201

Skinny D'Amato the Notorious 500 Club & the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City
In the style of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, with the glamour of Ratpack Confidential and the intrigue and sleaze of the Sopranos, Jonathan van Meter has woven a stunning work of narrative non-fiction, set around one family amidst the alternately glamorous, seedy and forbidding Atlantic City. The Last Good Time tells the story of Skinny D'Amato and his daughter Paulajane. A close friend of Cubby Broccoli, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean Martin, and a de facto member of the rat pack, Skinny was the owner of the famous nightspot the 500 Club, and someone who made millions when legal gambling started in Atlantic City. He died in seclusion, smoking five packs of cigarettes a day, after his family became mired in scandal. The author moved to Atlantic City as a young man and became involved in the drama of the D'Amato family and the seedy underworld they inhabited. His portrait of the city moves from its shabby boardwalk to the glittering Trump casinos to the faded, upper-class Bay Club and the gay bars on New York Avenue, haunted by the spectre of the Mob.

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Gus Russo The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern USA Published August 2003 by Bloomsbury at £14.99 ISBN: 0747566461

It is a common misconception that all the true organised crime stories have been written. In fact, perhaps the most compelling gangster tale is one that has been, until now, surprisingly well hidden. This is the story of The Outfit: the secretive organised crime cartel that began its reign in prohibition-era Chicago before becoming the puppet master of Hollywood, Las Vegas and Washington D.C. Along the way the gang pioneered many diversions now taken for granted: off track betting, casino gambling, Top Forty record listings and music videos. They also helped make blockbuster movies and elect presidents. The Outfit recounts the adventures and exploits of its bosses, Tony 'Joe Batters' Accardo (the real Godfather), Murray 'The Camel' or 'Curly' Humphreys (the greatest political fixer and union organiser America has ever known) and Paul 'The Waiter' Ricca (the ambassador to the New York Crime Commission). Their invisibility was their strength, and what kept their leader from ever spending a night in jail. Moving with purpose and panache, the Outfit blended effortlessly with underworld corporate heads. Hollywood moguls, and national political icons. It was only after a fifty- year run that their world started to crumble in the 1970s.

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John Williams The Prince of Wales Pbk published July 2003 by Bloomsbury at £9.99 ISBN: 0747559759

The final part of John Williams's Cardiff-trilogy, The Prince of Wales sees the Butetown community threatened to the point of extinction by the redevelopment that is changing the face of the city. Set in Cardiff in the first year of the new century, Jimmy Fairfax, the good enough copper, Bobby Ranger, the lesbian pimp, and her lover, the prostitute Maria Losado find their lives entangled. Against a backdrop of football hooliganism, the bay development and the Assembly they try to change their own lives in a city that itself is changing irrevocably. Part love story, part thriller and part search for identity, The Prince of Wales is a rich emotional drama.

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