Road to Perdition

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First there was Max Allan Collins' legendary graphic novel...then came the Academy Award winning movie and his bestselling screenplay novelization. Now Collins presents an epic new novel, combining and expanding upon all that came before, to create the ultimate version of his unforgettable story.;

Depression-era Chicago is awash in liquor…

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2 authors picked Road to Perdition as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

J.T. Conroe

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Road to Perdition takes place during the Great Depression. Like my book, it concerns a man who betrays his Chicago Irish-American mob boss and is forced to flee for his life (accompanied by his young son in this case), pursued by a relentless killer sent by his former boss. Superficially, what appealed to me was the Depression-era atmosphere that the author of Road to Perdition created. On a deeper level, it appealed to me as a story of a man in a battle for the soul of his son. The man, an enforcer for his gangland boss, considers his own…

From J.T.'s list on small towns and big city crime.

Brandon Barrows

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Michael O'Sullivan, a brutal, but honorable, enforcer for a midwestern mob syndicate keeps a strict line between his work and his home life to the point where his children have no idea what he does for a living, only that it's "important." When Michael's twelve-year-old son stows away in his father's car to see what his father's work entails, and witnesses him committing a murder, all hell breaks loose and the pair travel around the country waging a guerilla war against the mob and trying to find a way to save themselves.

This is one of my favorite Max Allan…

From Brandon's list on American mobs.