THE SYNDIC

by Kornbluth, M.

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. A very different reading of the New York underworld from that of the GODFATHER. In a future New York, the Syndic has evolved into a free, highly permissive society, with what used to be 'protection' functioning as a mild form of taxation. Chicago's mob is quite the opposite, a brutal police state. A U.S. government-in-exile on the Irish coast

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