A moving story of a remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician, "The Soloist" is soon to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr.
Ofelia Santoro rides her bicycle through the decaying streets of Philadelphia, known as "The Badlands". She is looking for her 14-year-old son, Gabriel, who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Gabriel is on the streets, dealing coke, and at the mercy of Diablo, the most dangerous dealer of all.
In the new novel from the award-winning author of "Third and Indiana", decency and democracy stage a fight to the finish in a scathingly funny and suspenseful tale of greed and corruption. When an Assistant District Attorney is told by her boss to nail the Sunday Macaroni Club, five remnants of an old political machine led by a former U.S. Senator ...
Once, Michael O'Sullivan was the "Angel of Death", the Irish mob's most feared enforcer. Once, his son was an innocent youth. Now neither is what he once was.
Following further tales from the book Road to Perdition, award-winning author Max Allan Collins revisits the Angel of Death and his son. Michael O'Sullivan (and his young wheelman, Michael Jr,) loot the Kansas City mob's monthly payroll, to pay off local crooked politicos and upper-echelon cops...
With his trademark passion, compassion, and biting humor, Steve Lopez takes readers into a town, a love affair, and a man about to be destroyed--or redeemed.
When Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' skid row, he finds it impossible to walk away. More than thirty years ago, Ayers was a promising student at Julliard - ambitious, charming and hugely talented - until he gradually lost his ability to function, overcome by schizophrenia. When Lopez ...
More than thirty years ago, Nathaniel Ayers was a promising student at Juilliard, until schizophrenia robbed him of his ability to function. When journalist Steve Lopez hears him playing his heart out on a two-string violin on skid row, he imagines that he might be able to help change Ayers's life.
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