Dodgers
Published on 29. March 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-84344-857-0 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the British Book Award for Best Crime and Thriller Novel 2017
Winner of the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger 2016
Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger 2016
Winner of the LA Times Book Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the British Book Award for Overall Book of the Year 2017
Shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel 2017
Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction 2017
Shortlisted for the Barry Award for Best First Novel 2017
When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip - straight down the middle of white, rural America - to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin.
Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys - including his trigger-happy younger brother, Ty - leave the only home they've ever known in a nondescript blue van, with a roll of cash, a map and a gun they shouldn't have.
Along the way, the country surprises East. The blood on his hands isn't the blood he expects. And he reaches places where only he can decide which way to go - or which person to become.
By way of The Wire and in the spirit of Scott Smith's A Simple Plan and Richard Price's Clockers, Dodgers is itself something entirely original: a gripping literary crime novel with a compact cast whose intimate story opens up to become a reflection on the nature of belonging and reinvention.
Winner of the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger 2016
Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger 2016
Winner of the LA Times Book Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the British Book Award for Overall Book of the Year 2017
Shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel 2017
Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction 2017
Shortlisted for the Barry Award for Best First Novel 2017
When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip - straight down the middle of white, rural America - to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin.
Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys - including his trigger-happy younger brother, Ty - leave the only home they've ever known in a nondescript blue van, with a roll of cash, a map and a gun they shouldn't have.
Along the way, the country surprises East. The blood on his hands isn't the blood he expects. And he reaches places where only he can decide which way to go - or which person to become.
By way of The Wire and in the spirit of Scott Smith's A Simple Plan and Richard Price's Clockers, Dodgers is itself something entirely original: a gripping literary crime novel with a compact cast whose intimate story opens up to become a reflection on the nature of belonging and reinvention.
Reviews / Votes
Dodgers does not disappoint and marks the coming of a master storyteller -- Matt Bates (WH Smith Travel) * The Bookseller * A masterpiece * Michael Redhill * This is - quite simply - one of the best books I've read in a VERY long time. My hat's off to Bill Beverly for this tremendous achievement -- Don Winslow, author of The Cartel Bill Beverly has crafted a piece of work that is nothing short of masterful... The book took my breath away -- Dirk Robertson * Criminal Element * Violent, insightful and beautifully written -- Paul Connelly * Metro *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bedford Square Publishers
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84344-857-0 (9781843448570)
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E-Book
03/2016
No Exit Press
€8.49
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Person
Bill Beverly was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He studied literature and writing at Oberlin College, including time in London studying theatre and the Industrial Revolution. He then studied fiction and pursued a Ph.D. in American literature at the University of Florida. His research on criminal fugitives and the stories surrounding them became the book On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America. He now teaches American literature and writing at Trinity University in Washington D.C. and lives with his wife, the poet and writer Deborah Ager, and their daughter Olive, in Hyattsville, Maryland. He collects beer cans. Dodgers is his debut novel.