"The finest American writer of his generation." - Sunday Mail As if Cormac McCarthy had decamped from Southwest to Midwest.Chicago feels like one of the great American male novelists of the late 20th century -- Updike, Mailer, Bellow, Roth--trying his hand at writing a genre novel. But unlike those novelists' somewhat less sure-footed lunges.Mamet lands this with aplomb. - Los Angeles Times "Chicago is tremendous fun, with much to savour." - The Times Literary Supplement "Few writers are better at bringing the smart, charged dialogue of the theater into conventional prose. The story moves at a careening pace.

Of a piece with character studies such as E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime and John Sayles' Eight Men Out, Mamet's book does Chicago--and organized crime--proud. An evocative, impressive return that Mamet fans will welcome." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The story moves at a careening pace. Of a piece with character studies such as E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime and John Sayles' Eight Men Out, Mamet's book does Chicago--and organized crime--proud.

An evocative, impressive return that Mamet fans will welcome." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Acclaimed playwright (Glengarry Glen Ross) and screenwriter (The Untouchables) Mamet unpacks his literary arsenal in his first novel in two decades. Mamet offers a master class on dialogue. For readers of Elmore Leonard and Dennis Lehane. - Booklist (starred review) "All the trademarks of a Mamet production -- electric dialogue and a hurtling pace." - New York Times "Full of twists and surprises.Mamet's new novel is a treasure, a piece of fictitious history entrenched in an era of violence and love." - Harvard Crimson "Splendid.

a riveting crime drama in a throwback journalistic world, a time when you could yell for a copy boy to bring you Dixie cups for your illegal liquor. But this novel has a romantic heart, and the emotional stakes complement the whiskey-drenched whodunit." - USA Today "Tommy guns, bootleggers and hard-living newsmen: David Mamet adds a vivid novel to a legendary tradition." - Wall Street Journal.