num_pages: 158
description: Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself. The result is a moody thriller that, like the best hard-boiled fiction, carries a moral depth charge.
language: English
title: Shoot the Piano Player
titlecomplete: Shoot the Piano Player
genres: 20th Century, Thriller, Novels, Crime, Hard Boiled, Noir, Classics, Mystery, Pulp, Fiction
ratings_count: 3438
places: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group