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Night & the City (Hardcover)

by Gerald Kersch (Author)
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The first title in ibooks' series of classic mysteries by Gerald Kersh. 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 pounds, but it might as well be a million because he needs the money by the end of the week. 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, spiralling further and further into the depths of immorality and depravity. And by the time his quest is over, Ilarry Fabian will have entered the tenth circle of the Inferno, dragging everybody he knows down with him... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Too tough for some., Jan 31 2004
By S Smyth (Belfast, Co Antrim United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night and the City (Paperback)
He's a guy who'd blackmail a man with a dying wife; sacrifice an aging wrestler in a fight for a meagre profit; sell his prostitute girlfriend, whom he lives off, to white-slavers. He's Harry Fabian, one of London town's low-life, with a humble, street-trader brother that loves him all the same.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great writer, ghastly subject, Jan 20 2002
By R. Wallace "Bob Wallace" (St. Louis, Mo USA) - See all my reviews
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This is the first book I've ever read by Kersh, and I'll say he verges on being a great writer, who turns a phrase better than any writer I've come across. However, this is strictly a book for adults; bitter, cynical, and cruel. Did Kersh live this life? The whole book is set at night, and deals with the worst possible nightlife--pimps, whores, drunks, criminals, liars, braggarts. This novel was written in the 1940's (which shows human nature doesn't change). Kersh is a wonderful stylist; the way he describes the world in this book can literally make you feel ill. All is not lost, though; there are two people, a sculptor, and a woman trying not to get dragged down into the hellhole the author describes, who are trying their darndest to get away what I can only describe as Dante's Inferno. Even is this worst of worlds, love can redeem. Don't read this book at one sitting, though.
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