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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-101250019532
ISBN-139781250019530
eBay Product ID (ePID)166285026
Product Key Features
Book TitlePoor Boy's Game
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Crime, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Publication Year2014
GenreFiction
AuthorDennis Tafoya
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-047142
Reviews"At the center of Dennis Tafoya's powerful and poignant novel beats the mighty heart of his richly etched heroine, U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen. With The Poor Boy's Game , Tafoya shows us he ranks with George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, illuminating the grimmest corners of his city, and telling tales filled with both darkness and immense beauty." -- Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me " The Poor Boy's Game is a beautifully rendered, gut-wrenching portrait of lives wrecked by crime and circumstance. Tafoya's prose is so close to the street that it seems to be written not from the outside looking in, but from within the wounds and fractures themselves." -- Reed Farrel Coleman, Edgar Award-nominated author of The Hollow Girl "A bruising heartbreaker of a novel, with a heroine you won't soon forget. Tafoya knows his territory and, more importantly, he knows his people. The Poor Boy's Game is a knockout." -- Wallace Stroby, author of Shoot the Woman First "Dennis Tafoya pulls no punches. His characters carry fractured hearts and wounds that won't heal--none more so than U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen--but even their darkest hours are rendered with a grace that makes them all the more hauntingly human. The Poor Boy's Game is a triumph." -- Hilary Davidson, Anthony Award-winning author of Evil in All Its Disguises "Tafoya delivers a gut-wrenching crime thriller as gritty and harsh as a Philadelphia winter." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Tafoya continues to explore the fine line between good and evil...[ The Poor Boy's Game ] features complex characters and a truly shocking ending." -- Kirkus, A bruising heartbreaker of a novel, with a heroine you won't soon forget. Tafoya knows his territory and, more importantly, he knows his people. The Poor Boy's Game is a knockout., "At the center of Dennis Tafoya's powerful and poignant novel beats the mighty heart of his richly etched heroine, U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen. With The Poor Boy's Game , Tafoya shows us he ranks with George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, illuminating the grimmest corners of his city, and telling tales filled with both darkness and immense beauty."-Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me " The Poor Boy's Game is a beautifully rendered, gut-wrenching portrait of lives wrecked by crime and circumstance. Tafoya's prose is so close to the street that it seems to be written not from the outside looking in, but from within the wounds and fractures themselves."-Reed Farrel Coleman, Edgar Award-nominated author of The Hollow Girl "A bruising heartbreaker of a novel, with a heroine you won't soon forget. Tafoya knows his territory and, more importantly, he knows his people. The Poor Boy's Game is a knockout."-Wallace Stroby, author of Shoot the Woman First "Dennis Tafoya pulls no punches. His characters carry fractured hearts and wounds that won't heal-none more so than U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen-but even their darkest hours are rendered with a grace that makes them all the more hauntingly human. The Poor Boy's Game is a triumph."-Hilary Davidson, Anthony Award-winning author of Evil in All Its Disguises "Tafoya delivers a gut-wrenching crime thriller as gritty and harsh as a Philadelphia winter."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Tafoya continues to explore the fine line between good and evil…[ The Poor Boy's Game ] features complex characters and a truly shocking ending."- Kirkus, At the center of Dennis Tafoya's powerful and poignant novel beats the mighty heart of his richly etched heroine, U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen. With The Poor Boy's Game , Tafoya shows us he ranks with George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, illuminating the grimmest corners of his city, and telling tales filled with both darkness and immense beauty., "At the center of Dennis Tafoya's powerful and poignant novel beats the mighty heart of his richly etched heroine, U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen. With The Poor Boy's Game , Tafoya shows us he ranks with George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, illuminating the grimmest corners of his city, and telling tales filled with both darkness and immense beauty."-Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me " The Poor Boy's Game is a beautifully rendered, gut-wrenching portrait of lives wrecked by crime and circumstance. Tafoya's prose is so close to the street that it seems to be written not from the outside looking in, but from within the wounds and fractures themselves."-Reed Farrel Coleman, Edgar Award-nominated author of The Hollow Girl "A bruising heartbreaker of a novel, with a heroine you won't soon forget. Tafoya knows his territory and, more importantly, he knows his people. The Poor Boy's Game is a knockout."-Wallace Stroby, author of Shoot the Woman First "Dennis Tafoya pulls no punches. His characters carry fractured hearts and wounds that won't heal-none more so than U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen-but even their darkest hours are rendered with a grace that makes them all the more hauntingly human. The Poor Boy's Game is a triumph."-Hilary Davidson, Anthony Award-winning author of Evil in All Its Disguises "Tafoya delivers a gut-wrenching crime thriller as gritty and harsh as a Philadelphia winter."- Publishers Weekly (starred review), Praise for The Wolves of Fairmount Park :"[A] mesmerizing and most impressive book . . . As a writer, Mr. Tofoya brings to mind some better-known heavy hitters in his trade, but he is also clearly finding his own original voice, one that will make readers sit up and listen." - The Wall Street Journal "Tafoya skillfully shifts among the perspectives of the two grieving fathers, Orlando, and Danny Martinez, the primary investigator on the case. The bleak worldview Brendan articulates . . . will resonate with classic noir readers, who will hope Tafoya is their guide through the mean streets for years to come." - Publishers Weekly (starred), Tafoya continues to explore the fine line between good and evil...[ The Poor Boy's Game ] features complex characters and a truly shocking ending., "At the center of Dennis Tafoya's powerful and poignant novel beats the mighty heart of his richly etched heroine, U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen. With The Poor Boy's Game , Tafoya shows us he ranks with George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, illuminating the grimmest corners of his city, and telling tales filled with both darkness and immense beauty."-Megan Abbott " The Poor Boy's Game is a beautifully rendered, gut-wrenching portrait of lives wrecked by crime and circumstance. Tafoya's prose is so close to the street that it seems to be written not from the outside looking in, but from within the wounds and fractures themselves."-Reed Farrel Coleman, Edgar Award-nominated author of The Hollow Girl "A bruising heartbreaker of a novel, with a heroine you won't soon forget. Tafoya knows his territory and, more importantly, he knows his people. The Poor Boy's Game is a knockout."-Wallace Stroby, author of Shoot the Woman First, Dennis Tafoya pulls no punches. His characters carry fractured hearts and wounds that won't heal--none more so than U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen--but even their darkest hours are rendered with a grace that makes them all the more hauntingly human. The Poor Boy's Game is a triumph., The Poor Boy's Game is a beautifully rendered, gut-wrenching portrait of lives wrecked by crime and circumstance. Tafoya's prose is so close to the street that it seems to be written not from the outside looking in, but from within the wounds and fractures themselves., "At the center of Dennis Tafoya's powerful and poignant novel beats the mighty heart of his richly etched heroine, U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen. With The Poor Boy's Game , Tafoya shows us he ranks with George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, illuminating the grimmest corners of his city, and telling tales filled with both darkness and immense beauty."-Megan Abbott "A beautifully rendered, gut-wrenching portrait of lives wrecked by crime and circumstance. Tafoya's prose is so close to the street that it seems to be written not from the outside looking in, but from within the wounds and fractures themselves."-Reed Farrel Coleman, three-time Edgar Award nominated author of The Hollow Girl, "At the center of Dennis Tafoya's powerful and poignant novel beats the mighty heart of his richly etched heroine, U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen. With The Poor Boy's Game , Tafoya shows us he ranks with George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, illuminating the grimmest corners of his city, and telling tales filled with both darkness and immense beauty."-Megan Abbott " The Poor Boy's Game is a beautifully rendered, gut-wrenching portrait of lives wrecked by crime and circumstance. Tafoya's prose is so close to the street that it seems to be written not from the outside looking in, but from within the wounds and fractures themselves."-Reed Farrel Coleman, Edgar Award-nominated author of The Hollow Girl "A bruising heartbreaker of a novel, with a heroine you won't soon forget. Tafoya knows his territory and, more importantly, he knows his people. The Poor Boy's Game is a knockout."-Wallace Stroby, author of Shoot the Woman First "Tafoya delivers a gut-wrenching crime thriller as gritty and harsh as a Philadelphia winter."- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "At the center of Dennis Tafoya's powerful and poignant novel beats the mighty heart of his richly etched heroine, U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen. With The Poor Boy's Game , Tafoya shows us he ranks with George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, illuminating the grimmest corners of his city, and telling tales filled with both darkness and immense beauty."-Megan Abbott
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Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisWhen US Marshal Frannie Mullen gets one of her best friends shot during a routine apprehension, her career is over. Still reeling from the loss, Frannie is trying to sort out her feelings for Wyatt, the reformed outlaw who loves her, and to support her newly-sober sister, Mae, as she struggles with the fallout of their unstable, violent childhood. Their father Patrick Mullen is a thug, a vicious enforcer for a corrupt Philadelphia union, and when he escapes from prison, bodies of ex-rivals and witnesses begin piling up. Now Frannie is suspected as an accomplice in his escape and targeted by shadowy killers from the Philadelphia underworld. Unsure who to trust, drawing on the skills she's learned as a Marshal and her training as a boxer, Frannie is forced to fight to protect her shattered sister and Patrick's pregnant girlfriend from the most dangerous criminal she's ever faced--her own father. The Poor Boy's Game is the most propulsive, riveting novel yet from crime fiction master Dennis Tafoya.
LC Classification NumberPS3620.A33P66 2014
