Funny Boys Warren Adler | ISBN : 1-59020-034-9

Funny Boys

Author: Warren Adler

Publisher: Overlook Press, The

Publication Date: 13 March, 2008

ISBN: 9781590200346

Pages: 352

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-1-59020-034-6 E-Book - netLibrary, 978-1-4332-4212-0

Description:

"Mickey Fine is a young man with a promising future in comedy. Attracted to the applause of the crowd at a lavish hotel casino in the Catskills, he gets a job as a tumler - part entertainer, part host, all funny boy. But he is naive to the more sinister side of his audience. They are mobsters and power players of New York's scandalous underbelly - men with whom Mickey had run-ins during his childhood." "When Mutzie Feder, a Jean Harlow-esque gangster girlfriend, gets into the act with dreams of escaping her brutal reality, sparks fly between her and Mickey. But as their circumstances start to catch up with them - and the body count starts mounting from the rough crowd they're running with - Mickey and Mutzie start angling for a way out. That, of course, isn't as easy as it sounds."--BOOK JACKET.