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Wicked City
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Wicked City

Written by Ace Atkins

Narrated by Dick Hill

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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In 1955, Look magazine called Phenix City, Alabama, "The Wickedest City in America," but even that may have been an understatement. It was a stew of organized crime and corruption, run by a machine that dealt with complaints forcefully and with dispatch. No one dared cross them - no one even tried. And then the machine killed the wrong man.

When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause for just a moment - and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide they have had enough, but what that means and where it will take them is something they could not have foreseen. Over the course of the next several months, lives will change, people die, and unexpected heroes emerge - like "a Randolph Scott western," one of them remarks, "played out not with horses and Winchesters, but with Chevys and .38s and switchblades."

Peopled by an extraordinary cast of characters, both real and fictional, Wicked City is a novel of uncommon intensity, rich with atmosphere, filled with sensuality and surprise.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 10, 2008
ISBN9781423349891
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Wicked City
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Ace Atkins

Ace Atkins is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven books, including ten books in his Quinn Colson series. Handpicked by the Robert B. Parker Estate nearly a decade ago to continue the Spenser series, he's written nine novels about the iconic private eye. He lives and works in Oxford, Mississippi.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I'm very glad to be done with this book. If I have to read about a certain madam's butt being big, yet shapely, one more time or read about a stifling home or someone's body odor being compared to the stink of a human mouth... I might just throw this book out the window into this Phenix City night.

    Review to come. Ugh.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I really enjoyed this book. Based on a true story but it read like a great mystery. I loved the setting and time frame.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The end. The interview with the family is great, brings the whole story to life