| South Boston,
Dorchester, Charlestown, Chelsea. These are the neighborhoods that
populate some of the greatest American crime fiction, from George V.
Higgins, to Robert B. Parker, to Dennis Lehane. Richard Marinick
knows these places as well as any of them. He grew up running with
the Southie gangs during the infamous Whitey Bulger era, and learned
to write during a ten-year prison stretch. He writes what he knows,
and his shattering, utterly authentic first novel Boyos, is the
result.
Jack “Wacko” Curran and his brother
Kevin are ambitious, highly successful earners for the South Boston
Irish mob. They’re young, menacing, and tired of paying tribute to
mob boss Marty Fallon. They sense the time has come to move up – but
moves are costly. They start to plan their own crew and their own
big hits…but Marty isn’t new to this game and can see the trouble
ahead. He’ll do just about anything to get rid of the Curran
brothers for good. Even become a top echelon informant for the FBI.
Already immersed in the world of
loan sharking, drug dealing, and occasional murder, Wacko is forced
to consider his options in the South Boston Underworld. Will he want
to stay in – or get out of the mobster’s life that he has chosen.
Wacko is one of most compelling, repellant, perversely sympathetic
antiheroes in a generation. He’s at the center of a maelstrom of
guns, drugs, loyalty and betrayal; a Southie “Boyo” speaking his
brand of truth to power.
Courtesy Justin, Charles & Co. |
Before
becoming a published author, Richard Marinick was a sand-hog, a
nightclub bouncer, a state trooper and an armored car thief. While
behind bars, he earned his masters degree with Boston University's
Prison Education Program. Boyos is his first novel.