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Jimmy the Stick : Jimmy Quinn Suspense Novel - Michael Mayo

Jimmy the Stick

By: Michael Mayo

Paperback | 8 September 2020

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.Jimmy Quinn has been many things, thief, bagman, bootlegger, and the man who greased palms from City Hall to the precinct house. 
"It's been a good life," he likes to say, though his ruined knee and a lifetime of enemies tell a different story.
A one-time runner for Arnold Rothstein and a "known associate" of Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, Jimmy now runs one of Manhattan's finest speakeasies. It's a quieter existence, until the Lindbergh baby disappears and the whole country goes mad.
When Jimmy's old partner Walter Spencer, now tied to the powerful Pennyweight Petroleum fortune, asks him to protect his young wife and child in rural New Jersey, Jimmy reluctantly agrees. Their son may be next on the kidnapper's list.
But the Garden State offers no refuge. Behind the manicured lawns and oil money respectability lurk secrets just as treacherous as the back alleys of New York. 
And as Jimmy steps back into a world of crime, betrayal, and violence, he discovers that his past isn't done with him, and this time, it may kill him. 
Find out what really happened to Jimmy today!

Industry Reviews

The 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping provides the backdrop for film expert Mayo's gritty first novel. Jimmy Quinn, who has a long record on the wrong side of the law, admits, "I've been a thief, a bootlegger, a bagman.... I was in on the fix of a World Series." After the abduction of the aviator's son, an old friend of Quinn's, Walter Spencer-who's gone straight-summons Quinn to his New Jersey home. Spencer's wife is frantic that their little Ethan will be the next child snatched. Since Spencer has some imminent out-of-state business travel, Quinn agrees to keep Ethan safe and secure. Another attempt to kidnap a child and the nailing of a man to a tree raise the ante. Mayo (American Murder: Criminals, Crime, and the Media) persuasively portrays such real-life mobsters as Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano in a tale sure to appeal to fans of Max Allan Collins's gangster historicals.

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