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Four teenagers in constant controversy with themselves, their companions and a country that is totally foreign to them, in an adventure that confronts them with the limits of their world.Wonderfully written, full of intelligence and understanding, Dodgers is both an exciting police novel, a road movie, and a story of coming into age.
East, only fifteen years old, is already an experienced gang member, hardy since a young boy in the streets of southern Los Angeles. So when the cops hit a drug trafficking house and capture his uncle, he feels ready to pick up a men’s jobs on his shoulders – even if that means finding and killing a key witness. What he is not prepared for is the journey he needs to accomplish to reach his goal. Because the witness is hiding in Wisconsin, and East, along with his little gang, has to cross half of America, while he has never been in his life outside of Los Angeles. Wonderfully written, full of intelligence and understanding, Dodgers is both an exciting police novel, a road movie, and a story of coming into age. Four teenagers in constant controversy with themselves, their companions and a country that is totally foreign to them, in an adventure that confronts them with the limits of their world. Awards: John Creasey New Blood Dagger 2016 Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Awards as the best crime novel of 2016 LA TIMES Book Prize of 2017 for Best Mystery/Thriller Mark Twain American Voice Award 2017
Although Beverly recreates the great rural America with photographic clarity, claustrophobia is haunting his narrative … Focusing on the world and its characters, the author could rightly lose the bigger picture, the vital hinterland that dies in the background. But in a marvelous way he does not.
Impressive … lyrical coming out of the most incredible materials.
Familiar and strong; Dodgers is a story of coming into age that brings to mind Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. It is Bill Beverly’s first novel – his previous book was a recollection of true stories of criminal fugitives – and his strong, direct prose will cary away from the front page.
It is an excellent novel, written with such confidence, calling the ghosts of Mark Twain and Herman Melville to see how it presents the impossible effort of East to become a member of a decent society. I read it twice and the second time increased my admiration for Bill Beverly’s feat. Dodgers is a very funny book, justifiably painful and unexpectedly touching.
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