Boneyards
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ISBN13: 9780671703196
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"Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley is Dead, political clout is up for grabs, and a new candidate is angling for easy votes - by hanging a bad cop on a tree. From City Hall to the hooker's stroll, the word is out: someone's picked the scapegoat, and it's Ray Sharkey. Boneyards is Robert Campbell's gripping portrait of this rogue police officer whose own ruthless code may bring him down." "With his penetrating Irish blue eyes Sergeant Ray Sharkey has seen it all, before and after the day he stopped paying for his own beers and shots. In the small half-world of cops and criminals - and among the old Machine-bound ties of aldermen, commissioners, clergy, and judges - he's got connections nearly to the top. He started on the take to cover his daughter's medical bills, though he'd long ago been warned: "Bad cops don't start out running a string of whores or taking out contracts on somebody's life. They all start out with a nickel heist."" "Detective Sharkey's got a murder to investigate on one hand, and a reputation that's crumbling on the other; a dying wife upstate, and a too-innocent partner in his unmarked car. He has associations some people might call illegitimate and reason to worry: about a woman with a grievance that goes back to his days as a lusty hero fresh from WW II, about a hoodlum named Frankie Blue Shoes who's working the game both ways, and even about his own on-the-side business partner." "In a stunning depiction of a city, a neighborhood, and the choices and compromises that form a man, Robert Campbell offers an array of unforgettable characters: Wilda Sharkey Carrigan, the family bad penny who inspires a dangerous affection: Jeremiah Sharkey, a judge with more loyalty to his brother than to the bench; Shelley Orchid, a Polish-Italian casino operator whose dream is to be asked to sit down with the Families; Roma Chounard, the black, sleek and sophisticated prostitute Sharkey hardly dares admit he loves." "The politicians' brooms are poised for the sweep, but their silver-tongued quarry has more than smiles and Irish honey-cake on his lips, and more up his sleeve than his arm. The city is naming its criminals and heroes, and laying them to rest where their stories all end the same...boneyards. Tough and compelling as Sharkey himself, this remarkable novel cuts to the heart as surely as a Chicago winter."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780671703196 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0671703196 |
| Weight | 1.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 1.10 x 6.30 x 9.40 In |
| List Price | $21.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 304 pages |
| Publisher | Pocket Books |
| Published On | 1992-11-01 |
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