Toughs

(Paperback)

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Set during the Great Depression and based in part on real characters and a series of historical events, Toughs follows the story of Loretto Jones as he finds his life intertwined with the fate of Vince Coll, a 23-year-old Irish gangster who for a brief moment rose to the level of a national celebrity during his war with Dutch Schultz, Owen Madden,and Lucky Luciano.

Reviews

"...a blistering pace, well-rounded characters, and moral dilemmas that are never pat...Recommend to fans of The Godfather books, historical fiction, and those who like their novels with a lot of action and a bit more substance." --LJ Xpress "This hard-hitting crime novel ... adeptly captures the dichotomy of the times--from the ruthlessness of life in the Bronx to the glittering revues of the Cotton Club." --Publishers Weekly "Reminded me almost immediately of Dennis Lehane: really atmospheric and gritty, authentic sounding characters... fans of Dennis Lehane, James Lee Burke, and the Sopranos will love this. Perfect to hit the shelves at the end of a long hot summer." --Geoffrey Jennings, Rainy Day Books "A rip-roaring portrayal of Prohibition-era gangsters in New York. Falco knows the ins and outs of loyalty, greed, power, and failed love. He writes with power and verve. This is a novel that's very hard to put down." --Alyson Hagy

Author Bio

Ed Falco most recently is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel, The Family Corleone, a prequel to Mario Puzo's The Godfather and subsequent saga. Falco has received innumerable awards, prizes and fellowships, and is the author of four previous novels, four story collections, and numerous plays, poems, essays, and critical reviews, including the novels St John of the Five Boroughs (Unbridled 2009), Wolf Point (Unbridled 2006), and the story collection Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories (Unbridled 2006). His stories have been published widely in journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Missouri Review and TriQuarterly, and collected in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and several anthologies, including, Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millennium. An early innovator in the field of digital writing, Falco's online work includes Self-Portrait as Child w/Father (Iowa Review Web), Circa 1967-1968 (Eastgate Reading Room), "Charmin' Cleary" (Eastgate Reading Room), and "Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales (with photographer Mary Pinto, in Volume I of The Electronic Literature Collection).