Dead Cat Bounce
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—Publishers Weekly
“Manny is an interesting character, whose story spins out briskly and suspensefully, and the portrait of Maine is nicely focused. Green is described as having been a truck driver, construction worker, and plant engineer. Somewhere in there he also learned plenty about the world of crime.”
—Washington Post
“This wonderful blend of poignancy and adventure is sure to be one of the best books of the summer.”
—New Mystery Reader
“Twists on top of twists when a really good cat burglar tries to become a really good dad…. Green brings us a fresh, thoroughly entertaining slant on single parenting.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Way Past Legal is possibly [Norman Green’s] best production to date, a solid tale of crime and retribution.”
—Mystery News
PRAISE FOR
The Angel of Montague Street
“As a fresh face in the hard-boiled crime-fiction sweepstakes, Green is carving out a niche for himself with his piercing portraits of men trapped by their tainted pasts.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Green writes about mobster families with a knowledge that is unnerving in its intimacy. Here he extends that empathy to…those ghosts who live to haunt the streets of a depressed city.”
—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
“As in his dark debut…Green presents a cast of folks who talk like Elmore Leonard but live in a reeking urban hell right out of George P. Pelecanos—along with their sense of grim fatalism in the face of impossible odds.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Norman Green’s Silvano Iurata is an intriguing character…. Green is a gifted writer with a style as understated as Iurata, a man of substance who’s slow to reveal himself. The Angel of Montague Street…establishes Green as an author worth looking for—and recommending.”
—Albany Times Union
“The Angel of Montague Street shows the Brooklyn of a generation ago when the borough retained its separate identity. Green acts as a guide through the leafy neighborhoods, the mean slums, and such places as Rockaway and Jamaica Estates…. Green is a skilled storyteller, slowly building tension, adding ingenious distractions leading to a raucous finale.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ALSO BY NORMAN GREEN
Way Past Legal
Shooting Dr. Jack
The Angel of Montague Street
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.
DEAD CAT BOUNCE. Copyright © 2006 by Norman Green. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Green, Norman.
Dead cat bounce: a novel / Norman Green.—1st Harper pbk. ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-085169-9
ISBN-10: 0-06-085169-4
1. Italian American families—Fiction. 2. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 3. Organized crime—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3607.R44D43 2006
813'.6—dc22 2005054549
EPub Edition © February 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200526-7
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