Wicked City

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series comes a “noir crime classic” (Mystery Ink) about one of the most notorious towns in American history.

When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City, Alabama, alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause for just a moment—and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men meet and decide they have had enough, but what that means and where it will take them is something they could not have foreseen. Over the course of the next several months, lives will change, people die, and unexpected heroes emerge—like “a Randolph Scott western,” one of them remarks, “played out not with horses and Winchesters, but with Chevys and .38s and switchblades.”

Peopled by an extraordinary cast of characters, both real and fictional, Wicked City is a novel of uncommon intensity, rich with atmosphere, filled with sensuality and surprise.

©2008 Ace Atkins (P)2024 Recorded Books

Macleod Andrews

Narrator is my favorite person . His voice is so soothing . Wish he had more books.

Wish he’d write more of this.

This is a perfect genre for Ace Atkins. Wish he’d write more of this kind of stories. I’d like noir give it a try!

A very dark story that was well performed.

There was a lot of racial slurs and victimized women. I found the depravity wearing and it took me a long time to finish. I can appreciate that it made sense for the time period it was set in but dang… I’m a huge fan of the reader.

Southern gothic extraordinaire

First, I am a huge fan of all Ace Atkins work. Great writer who really understands the light and the insidious darkness in the South. And Macleod Andrews is a fantastic narrator! Try it