On Fri, 14 Jan 2000
james.doherty@gsa.gov wrote:
> Stephen askes about any HB novels "which concern the
dark side of American
> unions."
Everyone seems to have forgotten Donald Westlake's "Killy"
from early sixties. Day Keene has a novel, the name of which
escapes me, about the labour leader who has the whole city in
his hands. These books are pretty wild reading to someone who
lives in Finland where the unions are accepted part of the
society and there's no criminal activity in any of
them.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
*Double in Trouble* by Richard Prather & Stepehn
Marlowe, a
> series-crossover teaming Shell Scott and Chet Drum,
has the two shamuses
> contending with the "National Brotherhood of
Truckers," a Mob-infested
> union which is a fictional analog for the teamsters.
Max Allan Collins's
> *Bullet Proof* is a novel fictionalzing Eliot Ness's
investigation of labor
> racketeering in the building and food industries
during his tenure as
> Cleveland's police chief. His *Million Dollar Wound*
involves PI Nate
> Heller the Mob's attempts to take over the movie
industry by taking over
> film craftsmens' unions. John Creasey's *The Killing
Strike* is about
> Britsh rather than US unions, and involves a
homicide investigation
> conducted by Scotland Yard's Roger West at an auto
factory that is being
> struck. Jon A. Jackson's *Go by Go* is set in Butte,
Montana, during the
> mining strikes of 1917 and involves the murder of
IWW leader Frank Little.
> In many ways it reads like a "prequel" to *Red
Harvest*. The hero is a PI
> who infiltrates the union. The first V.I. Warshwski
novel by Sara
> Paretsky, the title of which escapes me at the
moment, involves the
> feminist PI with the corrupt Knife-Grinders' Union
in Chicago.
>
> That should give you a start.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
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