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Jim Fusilli Returns With THE PRICE YOU PAY

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星期二, 一月 23, 2024

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A crime thriller, coming-of-age story and a family saga, THE PRICE YOU PAY is set in the mid-1970s in crumbling Jersey City, where violence and coercion reign. Young Mickey Wright is thrust into a world controlled by a powerful Teamster local. The man who put him in jeopardy: his father, a renegade policeman well-known to Jersey City's politicians and drug dealers. When a Black trucker is murdered, Mickey must choose between loyalty to his father or to values he shares with Debbie Olsen, the love of his young life who is the daughter of a stable, solidly middle-class family.

Key Points: 
  • Novelist Jim Fusilli returns with THE PRICE YOU PAY, available now from Down & Out Books.
  • The man who put him in jeopardy: his father, a renegade policeman well-known to Jersey City's politicians and drug dealers.
  • THE PRICE YOU PAY is Fusilli's tenth novel, but his first available in print in bookstores as well as via online retailers in 15 years.
  • Added Meg Gardiner, "With THE PRICE YOU PAY, Fusilli gives us a tough and heartfelt coming of age crime story—gritty, suspenseful, involving.