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The Good Rat, A True Story, by Jimmy Breslin

“When Jimmy Breslin resigned from newspaper writing in 2004 after roughly a half-century and countless thousands of column inches, it was ostensibly to devote more time to books. But there might have been another reason. Like a novelist, a great reporter needs his cast of characters — especially, for Breslin, the mobbed-up ones. “The Good Rat,” a book that combines personal anecdotes about the Mafia with the story of two really dirty Brooklyn cops, reminds us that by the time he quit, Breslin had lost his gangsters.” Read the review at the New York Times.

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