This clever imagining of the surprise pardon of Willie Sutton, one of the most notorious criminals in American history, on Christmas Eve in 1969, traces the remarkable life of this mysterious man, who was known to police as the Babe Ruth of Bank Robbers, and his doomed, dangerous romance with his first love. (historical fiction). Simultaneous.
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‘A terrific first novel by turns suspenseful, funny, romantic, and sad―in short, a book you won’t be able to put down’
John Burnham Schwartz, author of Reservation Road
‘Astonishing detail ... an unerring sense of place and history ... a fascinating portrait of a criminal’ People magazine
‘With a voice at once sentimental and muscular, Moehringer is like John Irving or Roddy Doyle ... at its core the novel is a love letter to New York’ Entertainment Weekly
‘What Hilary Mantel did for Thomas Cromwell, J.R. Moehringer now does for Willie Sutton’ Newsday
J.R. Moehringer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2000, is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Author of the bestselling memoir, The Tender Bar, he is also the co-author of Open by Andre Agassi.
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