Wicked City by Ace Atkins
Wicked City by Ace Atkins
Phenix City, Alabama, was known as "The Wickedest City in America," but even that may have been an understatement. It was a swamp of organized crime and corruption run by a merciless machine of murderous men. No one dared cross them.
Then the Machine killed the wrong man.
When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in the spring of 1954, a small group of men meet and decide that they have had enough, but what that means and where it will take them is something they could not have foreseen. Over the course of the next several months, lives will change, people will die, and unexpected heroes will rise.
With an extraordinary cast of characters, both real and fictional, Wicked City is a novel of uncommon intensity -- rich with atmosphere and filled with sensuality and surprise.
Inspired by a true story, it includes a never-before-published behind-the-book feature about the real crime and characters who inspired the book.
Berkley Books, Softcover, 2008
THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.