Publication Date: 08/12/2016 ISBN: 9781843447788 Category:

Dodgers

Bill Beverly

Publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
Publication Date: 08/12/2016 ISBN: 9781843447788 Category:
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Winner of the British Book Award for Best Crime and Thriller Novel 2017
Winner of the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger 2016
Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger 2016
Winner of the LA Times Book Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the British Book Award for Overall Book of the Year 2017
Shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel 2017
Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction 2017
Shortlisted for the Barry Award for Best First Novel 2017

When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip – straight down the middle of white, rural America – to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin.

Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys – including his trigger-happy younger brother, Ty – leave the only home they’ve ever known in a nondescript blue van, with a roll of cash, a map and a gun they shouldn’t have.

By way of The Wire and in the spirit of Scott Smith’s A Simple Plan and Richard Price’s Clockers, Dodgers is itself something entirely original: a gripping literary crime novel with a compact cast whose intimate story opens up to become a reflection on the nature of belonging and reinvention.

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