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Tom Mulvoy, Former Managing Editor, The Boston Globe
"Robert W. Wallace's debut novel packs a wallop. Long before the grisly glory days of Whitey Bulger, the City of Boston was terrorized by blood thirsty gangs hell bent on carnage and cold hard cash.
In his blistering crime novel, author Robert W. Wallace illuminates his characters, action and intrigue with a richness that puts Machine Guns & Typewriters among the very best of Boston Noir."
Casey Sherman, New York Times Bestselling Author of
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My Story
Robert W. Wallace worked in broadcast media for regional and national networks, including ESPN and NBC.
As a coordinating producer at NESN, he was nominated for a Regional Emmy Award in Writing for the documentary, “Curt Gowdy: Cowboy at the Mic.”
“Machine Guns & Typewriters” is his first book.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A novel based on real events.
In 1934, a backyard auto mechanic, his dullard brother, and an M.I.T. graduate fleece the Massachusetts State Police at a Boston auto show when the trio steals a Thompson submachine gun from an exhibit.
Five days later, the bandits turn the weapon on hostages used as human shields, while killing two police officers during a bank heist in the sleepy suburb town of Needham.
For the first time in Massachusetts history a machine gun has been used in a crime.
It is yet another job during a ruthless deluge of bloodshed which leaves two more citizens dead and a pair of taxi cab drivers caged in a courtroom surrounded by a legion of vengeful witnesses on the verge of convincing a jury to sentence the friends to death by electrocution.
Mired by political motivation and turmoil within an unorganized police force, tenacious detectives, known as “The Four Aces”, find themselves clashing with more than just gangsters.
Now, two rival crime reporters must combine wits to piece together the truth under the weight of competition between the city’s mightiest newspapers.
Against them are the tick of time, deficient evidence, and the indifference of cold blooded killers.
Machine Guns & Typewriters
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