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Shooting Dr. Jack : a novel

Three men--Fat Tommy Roselli, Stoney, and Tuco--work out their various aggressions and redemptions on the unforgiving street.

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  • "Shooting Doctor Jack"@en

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  • "Three men--Fat Tommy Roselli, Stoney, and Tuco--work out their various aggressions and redemptions on the unforgiving street."@en
  • "Three young men's lives speed toward a collision course with violence on the mean streets of New York in this tough and bracing thriller."
  • "A Troutman Street, Stoney, un alcoolique et Tommy, un rital, dirigent une décharge de main de maître ou d'escroc. Un jeune homme est retrouvé abattu au fond de la décharge, puis c'est au tour de Tommy de tomber sous les balles d'un tireur. Stoney décide d'arrêter de boire et de se racheter en affrontant une bande de mafieux opérant pour un dealer nommé Dr Jack. Premier roman."
  • "Violence is no stranger to Brooklyn's Troutman Street, a place where whores, junkies, businesses, cars, and dreams go to die. But here, in a junkyard on Troutman Street, three men search for redemption.</ Stoney wakes up with a hangover every morning. He loves his family, but they're terrified of him. One more DWI and he'll do time that he can't afford. His partner Tommy would run their "business" right into the ground -- or make them a fortune; no way to tell which.</ Tommy Roselli, a.ka. "Fat Tommy," a.ka. "Tommy Bagadonuts" knows the best restaurants in New York and how much to tip the maItre d' in each one. He knows who to call if he really wants you sleeping with the fishes. If you met Tommy, you'd remember him. But he'd remember you, your phone number, your wife's name, and what his chances with her are.</ Tuco has a gift, one that will come in handy for Stoney and Tommy when people start dying on Troutman Street. But as he learns to use it -- struggling to walk the line between family, friends, and the law -- he almost forgets the first rule of Troutman Street: <Watch your back.</</"@en
  • "This is the story of three men. There's Fat Tommy Roselli, also known as Tommy Bagadonuts, whose flamboyant style and open heart belie his sharp eye for a quick deal. Then there's Stoney, Fat Tommy's partner in a shady junk-yard business on Troutman Street, whose cynicism and brutality almost save him from his alcoholism. Finally there's Tuco, their young, street-smart apprentice, whose bravado and cunning hide his innocence, his insecurity and his desperate desire to belong. Three men on an inevitable collision course with violence, on "a one-way street that runs from nowhere to nowhere. A street of failures. Fall through the cracks of a better or kinder world, and you find yourself on Troutman Street." Three men in search of redemption and for each of them, there seems ..."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Noir fiction"@en
  • "Noir fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en

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  • "Dr Jack"
  • "Shooting Dr Jack"
  • "Shooting Dr. Jack : a novel"@en
  • "Shooting Dr. Jack : a novel"
  • "Shooting dr. jack"@en
  • "Shooting Dr. Jack a novel"
  • "Shooting Dr. Jack a novel"@en

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