Stickup child (n.): an city gunslinger who preys on different criminals, usually stealing already stolen estate, utilizing violence and intimidation.

Izzy selections a foul time to have a judgment of right and wrong quandary. As a stick up child in New York's underworld, he has an excellent factor going--robbing the worst drug lords within the urban and leaving no witnesses at the back of. it's a online game of excessive hazard and excessive gift. there's only one challenge: Izzy is in his thirties now, and for stable cause, there isn't any stickup guy.

while a task will get botched, leaving Izzy's psychotic accomplice to blame of yet one more murder, Izzy is aware what he's presupposed to do--kill the rest witness or be killed himself. yet a bystander named Eva turns out diversified from others he has performed sooner than. Is she the exception to Izzy's #1 rule?

Izzy hasn't ever jacked himself right into a challenge he couldn't jack himself out of. yet that used to be prior to. Now, at the unforgiving streets of latest York City--where the skyline stretches out like a graveyard--there is a struggle on and there's no room for error. His ex-partner is hellbent on revenge and is not any longer performing on my own. And as our bodies begin to fall round Izzy, he's left to tackle either his enemies and his internal demons face first in a conflict that has no questions, no dialog. simply bang bang.

during this explosive debut, Theo Gangi redefines the crime mystery, supplying a pulse-pounding, white-knuckle journey via gritty again rooms, the place justice is sealed with gunfire, nobody will be depended on, and being blameless can get you killed.

"Theo Gangi is an excellent craftsman. His paintings monitors different characters and lovely discussion that will make Elmore Leonard get up and applaud. he's new expertise that has ultimately arrived." --Eric Jerome Dickey, New York occasions bestseller writer

"Theo Gangi portrays the folks of the legal global not just in a fashion that brings them to shiny lifestyles, yet existence felt on the severe, out the place soreness, pity, even tenderness and love have their very own stark reality." --David Plante, writer of Age of Terror

"Theo Gangi's first novel Bang Bang is a vintage severe mystery, with a few unbelievable literary subtleties, and a degree of Escherian interlocking that might make Tarantino's head spin." --Madison Smartt Bell, of All Soul's Rising, a countrywide e-book Award finalist

"Gritty and gripping, packed with demanding moments and sharp prose, Bang Bang is a debut priceless of cognizance. With the ear of a poet, the perception of a psychologist, and the angle of a real New Yorker, Theo Gangi brings empathy and pathos to each gangsterfied page." --Adam Mansbach, writer of Angry Black White Boy

Theo Gangi attended Goucher collage, and is a up to date graduate of Columbia's MFA writing software. His writing has seemed in The Greensboro Review and The Columbia Spectator. a brand new York local, he now lives in Harlem.