TY  - BOOK
AU  - Izzi, Eugene.
TI  - The take: a novel 
SN  - 312010389
AV  - FIC .Z97 1987 
PY  - 1987///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - THRILLER -- CRIME
N2  - This was the author's first published novel. It is set among the brutal criminal class in Chicago, where the trunks of abandoned cars in the long-term lot at O'Hare hold enough bodies for a branch of the city morgue. Izzi wrote 18 novels during his short career, "Eugene Izzi (March 23, 1953 December 7, 1996) was an American crime writer. Izzi, a lifelong resident of Chicago, set most of his work in that city. He wrote in the classic hard-boiled style made famous by Mickey Spillane and Dashiell Hammett. Despite moderate popularity, he is best known for the unusual circumstances surrounding his death
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