Canaryville

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Pub Date 01 Jun 2021 | Archive Date 01 Jun 2021

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Chicago has always been a slaughterhouse.

Awash in violent rhetoric, facing bankruptcy and a federal takeover of its police department, Chicago is thirty-six hours from imploding into a race war. Canaryville will be the flashpoint—angry, insular, bare-knuckle Irish, and fiercely defensive of what little neighborhood it has left.

As the Southside musters for its massive Irish-only but now-banned St. Patrick’s Day parade, extremist groups descend from all sides. A grisly double-homicide occurs at Canaryville’s eastern border. Within hours, a pub-bomb explodes at the western border. Amid the rage and carnage, a third targeted homicide rocks the neighborhood.

Embattled homicide lieutenant Denny Banahan races to prove the killings are a purge within the Irish mob, not the graffiti-implied threats of another “Red Summer”—Chicago’s horrifying rampage of racial murder and arson in 1919. But the shocking secrets that Denny’s detectives begin to exhume may say otherwise.

Buried in those secrets are Denny’s deep and tragic childhood roots in Canaryville, and his major sins in the violent Black neighborhoods that surround it. The explosive combination will make Denny the one cop who might stop Chicago’s long-predicted descent into Red Summer, or the one who will finally ignite it.


Chicago has always been a slaughterhouse.

Awash in violent rhetoric, facing bankruptcy and a federal takeover of its police department, Chicago is thirty-six hours from imploding into a race war...


Advance Praise

"Newton is the real deal. I'll read anything he writes." - NYT bestselling author Lee Child

“Taut, gripping, and hauntingly dark. This is Charlie Newton at his best.” —Robert Dugoni, bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series 

“Charlie Newton is one of my favorite writers, and he keeps getting better, which is scary. Canaryville sizzles. It burns with the kind of passion that makes Chicago beautiful and brutal.” —Jonathan Eig, bestselling author of Ali: A Life 

“Charlie Newton’s crime fiction thrillers are like ticking narrative time bombs, exploding with existential brutality and blood-soaked enlightenment when readers least expect it. Canaryville is Newton at his best—unapologetically audacious and always seconds away from a jaw-dropping, skull-crushing detonation.” —Paul Goat Allen  

"Newton is the real deal. I'll read anything he writes." - NYT bestselling author Lee Child

“Taut, gripping, and hauntingly dark. This is Charlie Newton at his best.” —Robert Dugoni, bestselling...


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Charlie Newton marries the writing chops of Elmore Leonard to an over-the-top, gritty thriller sensibility that feels old-fashioned to me, perhaps channeling Alistair MacLean. Last year's Privateers was a hoot to read without transcending its extravagant plot, but now this underrated author has written the standout book of his career. "Canaryville" is at once an ode to an iconic Irish-American suburb of Chicago and a kinetic thriller plucked straight from the headlines. When a bomb massacre occurs in Canaryville, accompanied by lurid killings nearby, the great industrial city is poised on the edge of a new white-black war, and the only one who can track down the killer is police officer Denny Banahan, child of Canaryville and now embroiled in controversy, ready to retire and in love. The author is a master of controlled pell-mell plotting, the huge cast of riveting characters is wonderfully portrayed, and the bleak, black, humorous dialogue enriches every page. Throw in a villain creepy enough to out-creep Hannibal Lecter, and Canaryville is an immersive triumph that must be read in one sitting.

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Fasten your seatbelts, readers, Canaryville is going to be a bumpy ride: likely as not among the bumpiest you’ve encountered. For lovers of noir fiction, that’s a good thing – actually, the best thing, and Canaryville is among the best of the modern noir genre. It goes straight to 11 on page one and keeps going up from there. By the last page you’ll be wrung out, strung out, breathless – and feeling, withal, thoroughly entertained by what Newton puts you through. Actually, categorizing this as “noir” is not wholly accurate nor does the term do it justice; truth is, Newton’s tale defies categorization; the author is sui generis in his style and ability to tell a fast-past story of murder, mayhem, racial conflict, police procedural and Irish American tribalism and tragedy in the Windy City. For the uninitated, Canaryville is a working class predominantly Irish American neighborhood in Chicago, long known if not downright infamous for the tough guys and equally tough dames it has produced over its long and often violent but never uninteresting history. It is properly regarded as a Chicago analog to New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen, except whereas the latter has fully gentrified even to the point of changing its name (to “The Clinton”). and the Westies, the homicidal Irish American gang that once terrorized its streets, have long since been eradicated, Canaryville retains what may euphemistically be characterized as its “colorful” character. It is, in this respect, both a relic of the past and a relict of American urban demography. Home to cops, criminals, and city workers of every stripe, it’s one of those neighborhoods where, if you’re an outsider and you walk into a pub where you’re not known. not accompanied by one of the locals, and you don’t have face like a roadmap of Ireland, the boyos at the bar stop talking and turn to look at you with expressions that might rightly be interpreted as unfriendly if not downright menacing. The main protagonist of the novel, Lt. Denny Banahan, a long-serving (and, needless to say, long suffering) Chicago Police Department detective, is a product of this milieu, a true son of Canaryville with all that implies in terms of the manifold virtues and flaws of his character. Mostly in the course of a single day – two days, as it happens, before Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day parade – his virtues and flaws are made manifest as he attempts to deal with, in no particular order: a looming race war with restive blacks from an inner city neighborhood that fate, in its most trickster of guises, positioned next to Canaryville; Ulster Protestant terrorists intent on bringing Ireland’s “Troubles” to the Canaryville’s environs; Irish Catholic gangsters and all-around thugs who make the aforementioned Westies look like the punks they actually were; and a red-head Irish beauty to whom Det. Banahan has plighted his troth and whom he must save from a psychopathic assassin who may or may not be in the employ of any of the aforesaid -- and so steeped in evil, and evil accomplishment, as to make Anton Chigurr, the Satanic hitman in Cormac McCarthy’s novel “No Country For Old Men, seem warm and fuzzy by comparison. And that’s not all. But this review has no intention of revealing more about what is really a masterfully conceived and excecuted thriller for fear of denying readers the pleasure of experiencing it themselves as it hurtles toward its explosive and surprising climax.

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