A Hoarse Half-human Cheer - X J Kennedy - Books - Curtis Brown Unlimited - 9780692270738 - July 14, 2014
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A Hoarse Half-human Cheer

X J Kennedy

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A Hoarse Half-human Cheer

A medieval schoolmaster whose students stabbed him to death with their pens---his name lives on in the College of Saint Cassian of Imola, a school with spectacular troubles. World War II has ended, and overnight Saint Cash?s has recklessly expanded from a dozen students to 4,500. Unknown to the honest clerics who think they run the place, the Newark Mafia find the college a handy front for dealing in war surplus materials. It?s a tough scene for a green kid like apprentice mortician Moon Gogarty, even tougher for basketball coach Douglas Knox, a priest with a drinking problem who receives mysterious threats on his life. And both Knox and Moon face a powerful temptation: mobster mistress Aisling Vastasi. In this sinister comedy, the mob blackmails a pedophile priest in order to take over his lucrative charity, The Children?s Crusade. Events follow fast: a car-bombing, a fiery holocaust, an exorcism that ends in terror, a raid on a brothel, a college commencement that turns into a shoot-out, a play-off basketball game in which rival gamblers have bribed both teams. Alternately blood-curdling and hilarious, this is a gripping story full of sudden twists. Devotees of the thrillers of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiassen, and Janet Evanovich will find A Hoarse Half-human Cheer in the same league

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 14, 2014
ISBN13 9780692270738
Publishers Curtis Brown Unlimited
Pages 400
Dimensions 23 × 140 × 216 mm   ·   462 g
Language English