All Them Dogs

A Novel

De: Djamel White

A young Irish gangster is caught in a brutal dance between desire and loyalty

Tony Ward is back in Dublin. After five years in England, where he fled after murdering a rival gang member, he returns to find that his mentor is dead and his best friend has gone straight.

Keen to reestablish himself, he jumps at the chance to work for the enforcer of a local crime boss. But Flute Walsh is a far cry from the boy Tony once knew. Drawn to Flute in ways he never expected, Tony finds that the boundaries he thought he understood are breaking down in a world where nothing stays buried and where retribution is just a bullet away.

By turns savage, erotic, and unexpectedly tender, All Them Dogs is a gripping story of violence, lust, and greed that explores one man’s struggles to find balance in an unsparing world.

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Praise for All Them Dogs

“Exhilarating and often frightening, Djamel White’s first novel is a hugely satisfying read. It adds new streets to Dublin’s literary map.” –Roddy Doyle, author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

“All Them Dogs is all that— a book you inhale, devour, grapple with, and reel from more than read. A coming-of-age novel for an age that comes breathing down the back of your neck. The kind of book where everything is on the edge of a knife and where love, like death, is either a kiss or a bullet away." –Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings

“In the best Irish style, Djamel White uses a local voice to blast through language and make it new. His hero, Tony Ward, is a bittersweet confection of self-defeating swagger and All Them Dogs is a stylish, adroit, and gritty debut.” –Anne Enright, author of the Booker Prize-winning The Gathering

“A moving, fast-paced novel about masculinity, violence, and vulnerability, set in parts of Dublin that rarely appear in literature and written in prose at once glittering and tender.” –Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall

“As beautiful and tough as an uncut jewel, this kinetic and claustrophobic novel takes you deep into a darkness where desire, sex and violence become dangerously, seductively tangled.” –Colin Walsh, author of Kala

“All Them Dogs is a claustrophobic masterpiece—an emotionally devastating literary crime novel set in Dublin's underworld, where violence, poverty, and toxic masculinity form a brutal backdrop to a brilliantly tender love story. Djamel White has taken a familiar genre and turned it into something bright and new, burning like white phosphorus.” –Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts

“All Them Dogs is as compelling as your favorite gangster movie, as profound as your favorite novel. So sexy and tender and dangerous and poetic and frightening.” –August Thompson, author of Anyone’s Ghost