About this item
Presents a fictionalized account of how ambitious young prosecutor Thomas Dewey used a heroin-addicted prostitute and grifter to bring down powerful gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano and some of his known associates in a New York courtroom in 1936.
About the Author
C. Joseph Greaves spent 25 years as an L.A. trial lawyer before devoting his talents to fiction. HARD TWISTED (Bloomsbury) , his Dust Bowl-era literary debut, was called "a taut and intriguing thriller" (London Sunday Times) and "a gritty, gripping read, and one that begs to be put on film" (Los Angeles Times) , and was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in Fiction.
TOM & LUCKY AND GEORGE & COKEY FLO (Bloomsbury) , his second historical/true-crime novel of mobsters and madams, cops and lawyers in Depression-era New York, was named by the Wall Street Journal to its year-end list of the "Best Books of 2015," and was a finalist for, among other honors, the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.
In addition, Mr. Greaves writes award-winning mystery fiction as Chuck Greaves, and his novels include HUSH MONEY (2012) , GREEN-EYED LADY (2013) , and THE LAST HEIR (2014) , all from St. Martin's Minotaur. He is also a playwright, a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and the book critic for the Four Corners Free Press newspaper in southwestern Colorado, where he presently lives. For more information, you can visit him at www.chuckgreaves.com.
