Horace McCoy
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Mike Dolan es un reportero que, harto de las componendas de una prensa sumisa y de ver cómo sus artículos terminan en la papelera, decide hacer la guerra por su cuenta. Pese a que sólo cuenta con su fiel amigo Eddie Bishop, la temperamental Myra Barnowski y cierto talento para conseguir dinero de las mujeres, muy pronto ve la luz Cosmopolite, un semanario por cuyas páginas desfilarán un equipo de béisbol corrupto, un médico de la alta sociedad...
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McCoy's classic, slyly funny novel about a pair of young actors trying to make it in a pitiless Hollywood. For aspiring actor Ralph Carston, all roads lead to Hollywood - but none seem to be direct or easy. The handsome Georgia native immediately finds that his Southern accent is one strike against him, though he manages to eke out a living as an extra alongside his pretty roommate Mona Matthews. But the big break for these two young hopefuls finally...
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En Hollywood hay unos veinte mil aspirantes a actores que, fascinados por la imagen que muestran las revistas, han abandonado la seguridad de una vida monótona en su ciudad natal para perseguir un sueño. Mona y Ralph son dos de esos extras que intentan sobrevivir en una ciudad que, sin embargo, se les mostrará cruel y agresiva, tan violenta que es incluso capaz de asesinar. Mona y Ralph esperan incansables junto al teléfono a que les llegue su...
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Returning home in the wake of his brother's death, a successful man must grapple with his coal-town roots. For four generations, Colonel Tom Owen's family has been defined by the coal business. Having pulled himself out of the mines and through college, Tom is now a celebrated army surgeon who served in Europe under General Patton. But when his younger brother dies in a mine accident, he returns to their hometown of Coalville, Pennsylvania, where...
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A young law professor is hired to clean up a city strangled by corruption. Nemo Crespi's organization has a hand in everything from gambling rackets to hotels to newspapers. To combat him, the governor needs a special prosecutor he can trust, someone free of political ambitions... someone like John Conroy, a twenty-nine-year-old law professor as unlikely for the prosecutor job as anyone. Cynical, hardscrabble Conroy is reluctant to accept, until he...
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In this ingenious novel, a passionate journalist takes on his city's rampant corruption. Mike Dolan is a widely read columnist, but he's intensely frustrated by his newspaper's attitude toward the truth. All the articles he's most keen to run - about a rich youth escaping punishment in a drunk-driving accident, a supremacist group called the Crusaders, or a pennant-winning baseball team found to be throwing games - are precisely the ones his editor...
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McCoy's hardboiled noir classic, about an Ivy League graduate's criminal rampage through the seedy underground and glitzy high society of an unnamed American city To escape prison, Ralph Cotter uses the same genius for planning and penchant for cold-hearted violence that helped earn him a spot in the slammer in the first place. On the lam in a city where he knows nobody, Cotter has nothing to lose, no conscience to hold him back, and no limit to...