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Shoot the Moonlight Out
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
A haunting crime story about the broken characters inhabiting yesterday's Brooklyn, this is the new novel from modern master of neo-noir William Boyle.
An explosive crime drama, Shoot the Moonlight Out evokes a mystical Brooklyn where the sidewalks are cracked, where Virgin Mary statues tilt in fenced front yards, and where smudges of moonlight reflect in puddles even on the blackest nights.
Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Fire hydrants are open and spraying water on the sizzling blacktop. Punk kids have to make their own fun. Bobby Santovasco and his pal Zeke like to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. They think it’s dumb and harmless until it’s too late to think otherwise. Then there’s Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his high school age daughter Amelia and reads meters for Con Ed but also has a secret life as a vigilante, righting neighborhood wrongs through acts of violence. A simple mission to strong-arm a Bay Ridge con man, Max Berry, leads him to cross paths with a tragedy that hits close to home.
Fast forward five years: June 2001. The summer before New York City and the world changed for good. Charlie French is a low-level gangster-wannabe trying to make a name for himself. When he stumbles onto a bowling alley locker stuffed with a bag full of cash, he brings it to his only pal, Max Berry, for safekeeping while he cleans up the mess surrounding it. Bobby Santovasco - with no real future mapped out and the big sin of his past shining brightly in his rearview mirror - has taken a job working as an errand boy for Max Berry. On a recruiting run for Max’s Ponzi scheme, Bobby meets Francesca Clarke, born in the neighborhood but an outsider nonetheless. They hit it off. Bobby gets the idea to knock off Max’s safe so he and Francesca can escape Brooklyn forever. Little does he know what Charlie French has stashed there.
Meanwhile, Bobby’s former stepsister, Lily Murphy, is back home in the neighborhood after college, teaching a writing class.
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- Blake
- 31-03-22
Incredible
This book has been one of the most wonderful writing I've ever heard. There's every emotion possible and not a second is wasted in telling the story. It's gripping throughout and already one of my favourites. I've read / listened to an awful lot of books and this is just beautiful. An all time classic
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- annie234
- 28-09-22
Slow
If you’re looking for a fast action story with lots of twists forget this book. Covering each individual character chapter by chapter was stultifying. The story doesn’t have a chance to flow because of this.It’s probably better to read the book as I did find my concentration going and was going to return it, however, I skipped to the last few chapters instead and then wished I had returned it. The narrator was good but rather monotonous which may have added to the tedium of it all.
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