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"Abramowitz delivers another gritty, fast-paced noir" -- CrimereadsA bike messenger navigates Boston's gritty underworld of gangsters and blood money in this novel with more twists and turns than Boston's streets, in Adam Abramowitz's A Town Called Malice.Boston's fastest-talking, baddest bike messenger Zesty Meyers is back in town ... Bosstown. Boston's Big Dig has put a brand new shine on the city, its once insular neighborhoods awash with new money and runaway development. Not everybody is happy with the change. Zesty is struggling to keep his courier business afloat and is falling behind on rent, while his brother, Zero, owner of a moving company stocked with ex-cons has hired an unemployed rabbi who begins to exert a strange influence on the family and delivers most of his sermons with his fists.
About the Author
Adam Abramowitz grew up in Allston and Boston's South End, working as a courier, bartender, doorman, and longtime mover at Nick's Cheap and Friendly Moving Company. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Adam currently teaches at the Amani Public Charter School in Mount Vernon, New York. He lives with his wife, the poet Adrienne Abramowitz, and their two children in Irvington, New York.
