Little Caesar
Автор:
W. R. BurnettЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-12-12Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
46
Description
Caesar Rico is a small-time gangster in Prohibition-era Chicago, one of crime boss Sam Vettori’s lieutenants. He’s ordered to take a crew to rob a club during a New Year’s Eve party—but the holdup takes a turn for the worse when Rico shoots and kills a popular police captain.
Using this distinctly unwanted outcome as leverage, Rico starts to climb to the top of Vettori’s criminal empire—but he quickly discovers that the summit can be very slippery.
Little Caesar is often called the first gangster novel, and it certainly delivers in its realistic depiction of crime, the people in the social strata who are concerned with it, and their unique period patois. The novel was a hugely popular bestseller precisely...
