World's End (first published by William Morrow) is about love,
corruption, and retribution in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina
swept much of that world away. Nostalgically bittersweet,
intricately plotted, it works on several levels -- as a family
saga, a political thriller, and a kind of generational noir. A
compelling literary experience, and a complement to the author's
novel The Big Easy. New York Daily News: "If tight melodrama laced
with sex, power grabs and corruption is your dish, you'll devour
World's End with the relish of a hungry mule in a cornfield...a
spellbinder." Kirkus: "This Louisiana tale, with its Mafia crime
barons pitted against corrupt-government barons, expertly lifts
numerous Puzo-ian scenes and motifs - tit-for-tat violence, family
honor - while adding some strong local colorations and cinematic
effects... there's enough action and avarice down among the bayous
to make this a solid, never crass or tasteless, commercial entry."
Philadelphia Inquirer: "The teaser on the jacket flap says that
James Conaway's new novel 'will remind some readers of 'All the
King's Men' and others of 'The Godfather'... The good news is that
it's an astonishingly successful hybrid." New Orleans
Times-Picayune: ..". fascinating and absorbing... one of those rare
you-can't-put-it-down books."
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