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Reading, Reading, Reading, RAWHIDE!

The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

The Dame by Richard Stark

Tricky by Josh Stallings

Quarry's Deal by Max Alan Collins

The Plea by Steve Cavanagh

February 1, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I read a lot last week but also had a busy week at work (a good busy). Every time I tried to write a review on one of these books, all of them good, I just didn’t have the time or energy. So here’s a big update dump of the stuff I read in the last week and I’d be glad to tease them out more in the comments if anyone is curious… “The True History of the Kelly Gang” I enjoyed large parts of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alan Grofield, Australia, crime, Delaware, Donald Westlake, Eddie Flynn, historical fiction, hitman, Irish, Josh Stallings, legal, los angeles, Max Alan Collins, movies, mystery, Ned Kelly, neurodiversity, New York City, Peter Carey, Pretty As A Picture, Quarry, Quarry's Deal, Richard Stark, Steve Cavanagh, The Dame, The Plea, the true history of the kelly gang, thriller, Tricky

Jake's CBR13 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alan Grofield, Australia, crime, Delaware, Donald Westlake, Eddie Flynn, historical fiction, hitman, Irish, Josh Stallings, legal, los angeles, Max Alan Collins, movies, mystery, Ned Kelly, neurodiversity, New York City, Peter Carey, Pretty As A Picture, Quarry, Quarry's Deal, Richard Stark, Steve Cavanagh, The Dame, The Plea, the true history of the kelly gang, thriller, Tricky ·
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The Chicago Way

Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago by Max Alan Collins

December 9, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

I’ve been waiting for this book for years. There are so many works out there about Al Capone, most of them more fact than fiction, few of them recounting the gritty details of his battles with Eliot Ness during Prohibition. The Untouchables movie is more fantasy than reality, so was the TV show, depicting a Manicheean struggle between good and evil, law and order, etc. I wanted something that covered the full details of how these two met on the playing field of Chicago and what actually […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Al Capone, Chicago, Eliot Ness, Max Alan Collins, prohibition, Scarface and the Untouchable, The Untouchables, true crime

Jake's CBR12 Review No:184 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Al Capone, Chicago, Eliot Ness, Max Alan Collins, prohibition, Scarface and the Untouchable, The Untouchables, true crime ·
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