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As the wild building boom of the 1980s galvanizes the construction rackets, both the Mafia and the feds stake out territory in New York City's eternally explosive Hell's Kitchen, longtime turf of the Irish mob.
At the center of the story: two Irish brothers, Paddy and Billy Adare. One is an enforcer for the mob. The other, about to enter law school, works as a sandhog in the tunnels below Manhattan. Important to each other since childhood, they are caught in a crossfire of greed and savage violence that puts their loyalties -- to family, neighborhood, and each other -- to a brutal test.
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Thomas Kelly was born in New Jersey. He spent ten years as a construction worker, including three years as a sandhog in the Bronx. He went on to earn a Bachelor's degree in political economy from Fordham University and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard. Kelly has also been active in local and national politics through labor unions and has run a nonprofit organization for trade unions.
Kelly lives in New York City. Payback is his first novel.
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As the wild building boom of the 1980s galvanizes the construction rackets, both the Mafia and the feds stake out territory in New York City's eternally explosive Hell's Kitchen, longtime turf of the Irish mob.
At the center of the story: two Irish brothers, Paddy and Billy Adare. One is an enforcer for the mob. The other, about to enter law school, works as a sandhog in the tunnels below Manhattan. Important to each other since childhood, they are caught in a crossfire of greed and savage violence that puts their loyalties -- to family, neighborhood, and each other -- to a brutal test.
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