Urban Renewal: A Cross Novel Author: Andrew Vachss | Language: English | ISBN:
B00GQAON4M | Format: EPUB
Urban Renewal: A Cross Novel Description
Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. And all those gangs know well that the Cross crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71 . . . the last place you want to go, unless you're willing to risk it being the last place you go. The crew is notorious for its deadly efficiency and its disinterest in anything but money. So why has it turned from seller to buyer, grabbing up houses on a decaying block where only a few holdouts remain? Both the cops and the underworld are watching closely . . . but are they the only ones?
- File Size: 1415 KB
- Print Length: 274 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0804168814
- Publisher: Vintage (January 28, 2014)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00GQAON4M
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,480 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
In this second novel-length work (after last year's BLACKJACK, and several prior short stories), author Vachss once again takes us into the world of Cross and his crew of highly specialized mercenaries.
The setting this time is exclusively Chicago. More specifically, Cross's world *within* Chi-Town, starting with his bunker-like "Red 71" headquarters. "XX", an off-the-grid strip club run by the crew also figures prominently in much of this tale --- keeping in mind that operating any kind of straight business venture is hardly what the team is known for.
This is a richly complex tale with several different subplots skillfully interwoven via Vachss's quick-cut style and spare, dead-on descriptions when it comes to setting a scene and/or creating a character. From the beginning, Vachss has used his fiction to teach and draw attention to various wrongs (some past, mostly current) within our society, abuses to our young and the threat of what may be reaped from that always at the core. This theme runs again through the heart of URBAN RENEWAL, fleshing out the backgrounds of Cross and several key crew members to help explain what made them what they've become and their fierce loyalty to one another.
The title is drawn from the crew's plan (acting on the urgings of the wife of crew member Buddha) to acquire a block of property in the leftover badlands --- a former battle zone, now unclaimed by the fragmented gang scene of present-day Chicago --- and turn over its houses for significant profit on the re-sale. Complications arise from this, compounded by the various other subplots previously mentioned, and Cross and his team find themselves being kept busy on several fronts.
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