Bosstown
A Novel
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
"Abramowitz brings Boston alive with rich descriptions and caffeine-fueled dialogue." —Publishers Weekly
Zesty Meyers is Bosstown’s fastest bike messenger—caffeine fueled, wise-cracking and reckless—accustomed to hurtling through Boston’s kamikaze streets at breakneck speed, always just a bumper or car door away from disaster.
Will Meyers is Zesty’s father, Beantown’s former backroom poker king and political fixer, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s and a growing dread that the Big Dig, carving its way through some of the city’s toughest neighborhoods, will expose the bodies and secrets he’d assumed were buried forever.
When the heist of an armored truck goes violently wrong, Zesty is forced to navigate a gritty underworld of gangsters and blood money, desperately trying to outrace his family’s criminal past and stay alive in a changing city where death loiters on every corner and the odds of survival have narrowed to pulling a straight flush on the river.
Adam Abramowitz's Bosstown, a local treat, is a story of harrowing high speeds, desperately high stakes and more twists than a Boston street. For Zesty, it’s the toughest ride yet—and every path leads home.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Big Dig is underway and the urban renewal that's following in its wake threatens to reveal Boston's long-buried secrets, in Abramowitz's promising debut. Will Meyers once operated the backroom poker games where political deals were cut and problems fixed. Suffering from dementia, Will is running out of time and memory; he has one last fix to make before it's too late. Meanwhile, Will's son, Zesty, races through Boston's maze of streets delivering packages by bike, never planning his future further ahead than the next pickup. But when a pickup leads to a near fatal hit and run, Zesty can no longer outrace his family's past. With the FBI, the police, and a legendary gangster looking for the money from both a recent armed-car robbery and a long-ago bank heist involving Zesty's mother, Zesty must use every trick he's ever learned to keep himself from becoming part of the body count. The plot occasionally gets lost among the verbiage, but Abramowitz brings Boston alive with rich descriptions and caffeine-fueled dialogue.
