Heavy Sugar - by William Boyle (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Thanksgiving Eve, 1991: Most things that lovable scoundrel Georgie Quinlan has tried to do in his life have gone horribly wrong: Marriage. Fatherhood. Most recently, an armed robbery. It's the latter thing that has Georgie on the lam and back in Gravesend, Brooklyn, the sleepy Italian American enclave where he hasn't shown his face in a decade. He's stolen a Joe DiMaggio-signed baseball from the old Irish pub, hoping it's worth a penny, and hoping that southern Brooklyn is the last place anyone will look for him. This, Georgie is wrong about too.

Awaiting Georgie in Gravesend are his wife, Loretta, whom he hasn't seen in twelve years, and his teenage kid, Roz, who knows nothing about her father--he's been MIA for most of her life. But Roz is about to get a crash course in Georgie Quinlan. So is everyone, whether they want one or not.

Unfolding over one frenzied day, William Boyle's latest Brooklyn-set noir is a humorous, no-holds-barred exploration of buried desires and long-simmering resentments, a pulse-pounding, unpredictable bash from a singular voice in crime fiction.

Review Quotes

"Boyle's characters evoke the working-class romantics of Bruce Springsteen, small-time and scrambling for money, love, or answers."
--Oprah Daily

"Boyle is able to do what today's best crime fiction writers do so well--tell a captivating, page-turning thriller, but one defined by its characters and the choices they make, rather than the circumstances into which they have been thrust."
--The Washington Post

"No one can make the everyday vagaries of life feel like Greek tragedies the way William Boyle can. He effortlessly maps the path of desire that moves through the human heart like burning chrome."
--S. A. Cosby

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