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Custom House
March 2018
On Sale: February 27, 2018
352 pages
ISBN: 0062797190
EAN: 9780062797193
Kindle: B072LCW78B
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A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up
1920s Chicago—a city where some people knew too much, and
where everyone should have known better—by the Oscar-
nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer
Prize–winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike Hodge—veteran of the Great War, big shot of the
Chicago Tribune, medium fry—probably shouldn’t have
fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the
man who killed Annie Walsh have known better than to
trifle with Mike Hodge. In Chicago, David Mamet has created a bracing,
kaleidoscopic page-turner that roars through the Windy
City’s underground on its way to a thunderclap of a
conclusion. Here is not only his first novel in more than
two decades, but the book he has been building to for his
whole career. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional
creations with actual figures of the era, suffused with
trademark "Mamet Speak," richness of voice, pace, and
brio, and exploring—as no other writer can—questions of
honor, deceit, revenge, and devotion, Chicago is that
rarest of literary creations: a book that combines
spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as
fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake Michigan.
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