A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s
Chicago--a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone
should have known better--by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The
Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen
Ross.
Mike Hodge--veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune,
medium fry--probably shouldn't have fallen in love with Annie Walsh.
Then, again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh have known better than
to trifle with Mike Hodge.
In Chicago, David Mamet has created a bracing, kaleidoscopic
page-turner that roars through the Windy City's underground on its way
to a thunderclap of a conclusion. Here is not only his first novel in
more than two decades, but the book he has been building to for his
whole career. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional creations with
actual figures of the era, suffused with trademark "Mamet Speak,"
richness of voice, pace, and brio, and exploring--as no other writer
can--questions of honor, deceit, revenge, and devotion, Chicago is
that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular
elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind
gusting off Lake Michigan.
