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| | Horace McCoy |
 | | Horace McCoy was born in Pegram, Tennessee (in some sources Nashville) to parents whom he described as 'book-rich and money-poor.' McCoy was educated in schools in Nashville. |
 | | At the age of 16 he left school, and worked as a mechanic, traveling salesman, and cab driver in New Orleans' Storyville redlight district. |
 | | The protagonist, Mike Dolan, misses the old days, when "a newspaper was a newspaper and called a sonofabitch a sonofabitch..." He wants to clean the city - "and let the devil take the hindmost". |
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