8 rows · · Praise for White Shadow “A mesmerizing read. With wonderful detail of character and history, this Brand: Penguin Publishing Group. White Shadow is a great read. Ace Atkins is a crime writer straight out of the James Ellroy mould with this work, which looks at the death of a former bootlegger and organised crime in Florida when Batista was still ruling the roost in Cuba. I've read several works by Ace Atkins, who's also penned novels for the estate of Robert B Parker/5(89). · I haven’t talked about White Shadow in a while. My fifth novel was a real breakthrough for me. It was the first book after my Nick Travers stories and the first time I’d written about a true event. For those of you who haven’t read the novel, the story centers on the violent death of former Tampa, Florida kingpin, Charlie Wall.
With White Shadow, Atkins has found his true voice."—Associated Press Tampa, Florida is a city pulsing with Sicilian and Cuban gangsters, cigar factories, sweet rum, and violence. The death of retired kingpin Charlie Wall—the White Shadow—has shocked the city, sending cops, reporters, and associates scrambling to find those. Atkins wrote a stand alone novel White Shadow in The novel followed a story of the murder of the real-life crime boss at Tampa, Charlie Wall in that was never solved. He also published Devil's Garden in and Infamous in Atkins also covered Hurricane Ivan for Newsweek magazine and Hurricane Katrina for Outside magazine. WHITE SHADOW is a very different work for Ace Atkins, who has garnered critical and popular acclaim with his Nick Travers novels, a very readable series featuring a protagonist who is by turns a music professor and a somewhat reluctant private eye. What we have here is a more serious, much darker worldview.
Atkins (Dirty South, , etc.) mutes his Nick Travers series, benching the blues-loving ex-footballer, for something much more ambitious. This is a big-time crime novel crammed with violence, sex and some pretty good writing makes it hard to put down. Pub Date: May 4th, ISBN: Page count: pp. White Shadow. by. Ace Atkins (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · ratings · 68 reviews. A stunning thriller based on the true story of the death of retired criminal kingpin Charlie Wall-and those who benefited from it. Praise for White Shadow “A mesmerizing read. With wonderful detail of character and history, this.
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