G296 Book Review of Dialogues of a Crime by John K Manos
Name of Book: Dialogues of a Crime Author: John K Manos ISBN: 978-1-937484-13-2 Publisher: Amika Press Type of book: Crimes, mafia, Chicago, 1972, 1994, jail life, rape, drugs, friendship, loyalty, family, relationships, justice Year it was published: 2013 Summary: NAMED TO KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF 2013 1972. The Chicago Mob stands unchallenged, and college students with drugs provide fodder for political point-making. Michael Pollitz, a nineteen-year-old with connections to the Outfit, becomes one of those political pawns. 1994. Job-weary CPD Detective Larry Klinger becomes obsessed with a cold case from that pivotal moment twenty-two years ago. In the course of his investigation, he encounters questions of ethics, guilt, and justice that make him doubt certainties that have sustained him for decades. Dialogues of a Crime examines guilt, innocence and the long-term ramifications of crime and punishment in a gray area where the personal lives of perpet...