# Chicago - Paperback

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by **David Mamet** (Author)

**A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago--a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better--by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of _The Untouchables_ and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of _Glengarry Glen Ross._**

Mike Hodge--veteran of the Great War, big shot of the _Chicago Tribune_, medium fry--probably shouldn't have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge.

In _Chicago,_ David Mamet has created a bracing, kaleidoscopic page-turner that roars through the Windy City's underground on its way to a thunderclap of a conclusion. Here is not only his first novel in more than two decades, but the book he has been building to for his whole career. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional creations with actual figures of the era, suffused with trademark "Mamet Speak," richness of voice, pace, and brio, and exploring--as no other writer can--questions of honor, deceit, revenge, and devotion, _Chicago_ is that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake Michigan.

### Front Jacket

**_Jackie Weiss, Mike Hodge wrote, had died of a broken heart, it being broken by several slugs from a .45 . . ._**

Set in a mobbed-up 1920s Windy City, _Chicago_ is the first novel from David Mamet in more than two decades, an electrifying saga of retribution, double-cross, and honor across the canvas of a metropolis peopled by the corrupt, the cynical, and the deceived. From its opening fusillade to its astonishing conclusion, _Chicago_ is a page-turning thriller of the highest literary order.

\--_Los Angeles Times_

### Back Jacket

**_Jackie Weiss, Mike Hodge wrote, had died of a broken heart, it being broken by several slugs from a .45 . . ._**

Set in a mobbed-up 1920s Windy City, _Chicago_ is the first novel from David Mamet in more than two decades, an electrifying saga of retribution, double-cross, and honor across the canvas of a metropolis peopled by the corrupt, the cynical, and the deceived. From its opening fusillade to its astonishing conclusion, _Chicago_ is a page-turning thriller of the highest literary order.

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 7.8 x 5.2 IN

**Publication Date:** June 27, 2023

## Details

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