A big-shouldered big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago-a city where some people
knew too much and where everyone should have known better-by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter
of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike
Hodge-veteran of the Great War big shot of the Chicago Tribune medium fry-probably shouldn't
have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then again maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh have
known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge. In Chicago David Mamet has created a bracing
kaleidoscopic page-turner that roars through the Windy City's underground on its way to a
thunderclap of a conclusion. Here is not only his first novel in more than two decades but the
book he has been building to for his whole career. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional
creations with actual figures of the era suffused with trademark Mamet Speak richness of
voice pace and brio and exploring-as no other writer can-questions of honor deceit revenge
and devotion Chicago is that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular
elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake
Michigan.
