- Title:
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Dodgers (MP3)
- Written by:
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Bill Beverly
- Read by:
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J.D. Jackson
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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10 hours 17 minutes
- MP3 size:
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458 MB
- Published:
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May 28 2018
- Available Date:
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May 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489413031
- Genres:
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Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Mystery
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Winner The British Book Awards / Best Crime & Thriller Novel 2017
Winner The Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards / Gold Dagger 2016
Winner The Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards / New Blood Dagger 2016
Winner LA Times Book Prize 2017
Shortlisted The British Book Awards / Book of the Year 2017
Shortlisted Edgar Award / Best First Novel 2017
Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson and J.D. Salinger.
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.
'Violent, insightful and beautifully written.'
Metro
'A road movie, a coming-of-age tale, a crime novel of gritty realism and a hugely impressive debut.'
The Irish Times
'The prose is tight, the dialogue rhythmic, the pacing fast, the violence measured, and the ending unexpected.'
The Financial Times