Two small-time thieves get in over their heads in this literary thriller from the ?virtuoso novelist? and author of Soldier?s Joy (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Not quite at home in the backwoods of Tennessee, and even less suited for the service, drifter Macrae lands on his feet in New York City in the 1980s. There, he teams up with a petty thief named Charlie, and the two hit on a scheme to rob people withdrawing money at ATMs. Caught up by their surprising success, they move on to bigger crimes. But as Macrae feels a growing discomfort with the increasing violence and danger of their hardscrabble existence, he wonders if he?s in too deep to make a clean break. With a tightly orchestrated and harrowing conclusion from ?one of our most talented novelists . . . This meticulously observed story nevertheless grips us with its lucid prose, its keen psychological insights...
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