by Horace Mccoy · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429729283
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«Ciutat de corrupció» is Horace McCoy's crime novel, published by Edicions 62 in paperback, 128 pages, in Catalan.
Young law professor Johnny Conroy is tasked by the city to dismantle a criminal organization. His cleanup operation clashes with a police force that sabotages his work and protects the local boss. The plot draws a parallel between organized crime and fascism, denouncing institutional corruption.
The Catalan edition, translated by Montserrat Solanas, appeared in 1989 in the «Seleccions de la Cua de Palla» collection; the original language is English and the first publication was in 1959.
For readers of crime fiction and American social narrative.
Horace Stanley McCoy was an American writer whose mostly hardboiled stories took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death.
