Night and the City (Dell 374)
by Kersh, Gerald
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Synopsis
Harry Fabian has a dream to become the top wrestling promoter in London, but he has a problem: he needs money. Not too much -- only one hundred quid -- but it might as well be a million because he needs the money by the end of the week. What's more, it is the height of the 1930s Depression, he lives in London's Soho, he makes money from selling his girlfriend to men, and the police are arresting pimps like him to clean up the streets for the imminent Coronation of George The Sixth. Hunting for victims to blackmail and con out of money, Fabian moves through the clip joints, jazz clubs, wrestling gyms, bottle bars, and all-night cafes of 1930s London, spiraling further and further into the depths of immorality and depravity. And by the time his quest is over, Harry Fabian will have entered the tenth circle of the Inferno, dragging everybody he knows down with him...
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- Riverhorsebooks (US)
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- D7803319
- Title
- Night and the City (Dell 374)
- Author
- Kersh, Gerald
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Dell
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Night and the City (Dell 374)
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