Jerome Charyn: Ravage & Son (UK 2023) From the Publisher: Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. Charged with rooting out the Jewish "Mr. Hyde", a half-mad villain who attacks the prostitutes of Allen Street, Ben discovers that his fate is irrevocably tied to that of this violent, sinister man. Jerome Charyn: Ravage & Son. A wildly evocative, suspenseful noir and a lurid tale of revenge. No Exit Press, ISBN: 9781915798206 (November, 2023), 256 p., £9.99, eBook £4.99.
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Jerome Charyn: Ravage & Son (USA 2023) From the Publisher: Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade school and sends him off to Harvard to earn a law degree. But upon his return, Ben rejects the chance to escape his gritty origins and instead becomes a detective for the Kehilla, a quixotic gang backed by wealthy uptown patrons to help the police rid the Lower East Side of criminals. Charged with rooting out the Jewish "Mr. Hyde," a half-mad villain who attacks the prostitutes of Allen Street, Ben discovers that his fate is irrevocably tied to that of this violent, sinister man. A lurid tale of revenge, this wildly evocative, suspenseful noir is vintage Jerome Charyn. Jerome Charyn: Ravage & Son. A Novel. Bellevue Literary Press, ISBN: 9781954276192 (October, 2023), 288 p., $17.99, eBook $13.49.
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