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About the Book

Web of the City

In Rusty Santoro’s neighborhood, the kids carry knives, chains, bricks and broken glass. And when they fight, they fight dirty, leaving the streets littered with the bodies of the injured and the dead. Rusty wants out --- but you can’t just walk away from a New York street gang. And his decision may leave his family to pay a terrible price.

First published more than half a century ago and inspired by the author’s real-life experience going undercover inside a Brooklyn street gang, WEB OF THE CITY marked the long-form debut of one of the most electrifying, unforgettable and controversial voices of 20th-century letters.

Appearing here for the first time together with three thematically related short stories Ellison wrote for the pulp magazines of the 1950s, WEB OF THE CITY offers both a snapshot of a lost era and a portrait of violence and grief as timely as today’s most brutal headlines.

Web of the City
by Harlan Ellison

  • Publication Date: April 2, 2013
  • Genres: Fiction, Hard-boiled Mystery, Mystery
  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Hard Case Crime
  • ISBN-10: 1781164207
  • ISBN-13: 9781781164204